GIVE AND TAKE. BILDER ÜBER BILDER, 2022
Hamburger Kunsthalle
Group Show
2022
Give and Take. Bilder Über Bilder
Exhibition: Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2022
Give and Take. Bilder über Bilder, Hamburger Kunsthalle
Group show with Viktoria Binschtok, Josephin Böttger, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Irene Chabr, Sara Cwynar, Katharina Gaenssler, Mathilde ter Heijne, Sabine Hornig, Louise Lawler, Matthew Muir, Frida Orupabo, Max Pinckers, Walid Raad, Volker Renner, Sebastian Riemer, Martha Rosler, Evan Roth, Thomas Ruff, Taryn Simon, Johannes Wohnseifer.
Curated by Dr. Petra Roettig, Stephanie Bunk und Leona Marie Ahrens
Triptych, Store Closed, 2018
The work Triptych, Store Closed 2018, is installed in the Atrium of the Hamburger Kunsthalle. It is a four-part sculpture assembled like a screen, composed of three glass images and a hexagon.
The continuous image is based on a photograph, here screen-printed and burned onto glass, that shows three connected windows of a shuttered, crowded store in Bangalore, with large tropical trees reflected on them. Gradually, one discerns details of mannequins and objects that suggest European children's toys. Sabine Hornig has reversed parts of the picture, such as the faces of the invariably blond mannequins, into negative. The colorfulness combines with the blue-violet background and supports the eerie and unreal appearance of the dramatic background. The transparency of the image allows one to walk around the sculpture, visitors overlapping and becoming part of the scenery.
Money, 2022
Sabine Hornig also works with the technique of inversion in her work " Money" on the south window of the second floor of the building. The starting point for the work Money (2022) are photos of the New York skyline, taken as part of a project "La Guardia Vistas", 2020, which were assembled into a new composition here for a Hamburg window. Golden glowing skyscrapers shot during the day are turned upside down and hang from above, while an urban night view pushes into the spaces between the inverted towers from below.
Shot with a high-resolution camera, one can make out every detail of the skyscrapers, while here Hamburg's street traffic passes by as a fleeting image. Hornig overlays the scenery with a quote from the former New York mayor La Guardia from 1946 and in this way potentiates timelessly relevant urban and socio-social issues, as well as the interplay of different perspectives, realities and times.
( from the text by Petra Röttig in the KH booklet)