BOTOX
Galerie Philipp Anders•Jul 12, 2025 — Aug 30, 2025
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Silence has become rare. Spaces where one can gather one’s thoughts are even rarer. In his new solo exhibition ‘Botox,’ Paul Glaw unfolds an installation setting that conceives of the art space as a protective space – not as a retreat into the private sphere, but as a space of possibility for collective memory, pause, and visions of the future. Inspired by the role of sacred spaces in the GDR, especially churches as places of spiritual opposition and quiet resistance, Glaw designs a contemporary version of this space for reflection: a secular chapel beyond religious connotations, but full of atmospheric density. The gallery thus becomes a contemplative counter-space in an over-accelerated world – a place that allows for exhaustion, endures ambivalence and renegotiates presence.
Botox treats visible and blurred traces. It plays with the smoothing and erasure of history, experience, memories and age. Paul Glaw counters this with a visual language that understands memory as resistance.…
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BOTOX
Galerie Philipp Anders•Jul 12, 2025 — Aug 30, 2025
Press Release
Silence has become rare. Spaces where one can gather one’s thoughts are even rarer. In his new solo exhibition ‘Botox,’ Paul Glaw unfolds an installation setting that conceives of the art space as a protective space – not as a retreat into the private sphere, but as a space of possibility for collective memory, pause, and visions of the future. Inspired by the role of sacred spaces in the GDR, especially churches as places of spiritual opposition and quiet resistance, Glaw designs a contemporary version of this space for reflection: a secular chapel beyond religious connotations, but full of atmospheric density. The gallery thus becomes a contemplative counter-space in an over-accelerated world – a place that allows for exhaustion, endures ambivalence and renegotiates presence.
Botox treats visible and blurred traces. It plays with the smoothing and erasure of history, experience, memories and age. Paul Glaw counters this with a visual language that understands memory as resistance.…
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