Wolfram Ruoff "A Matter of Space"
Sous Les Etoiles Gallery
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In A Matter of Space, his second exhibition with the Gallery, Wolfram Ruoff presents a new vision of the meaning of space in a time where people balance their lives in the area between reality and virtual existence.
Modern technology creates a disjointed reality. We live differently in space and time simultaneously. The present is shorter than before, the space is smaller than before; it's as if our identity is reduced in a single movement. People are stressed to find their own direction, their own way of life - a new place of isolation, of meeting or harmony, of what could be the future. This concept allows us to have other opportunities to create of find alternate spaces to escape from our nearest reality.
"The acceleration of the flow of communication allows us to live new and different experiences."
Wofram Ruoff also refers to the philosopher Michel Foucault and his concept of heterotopia (1), "where other places that are outside of all places translate a kind of counter space as a contestation of our environment or time." In A Matter of Space, Ruoff creates a new combination or juxtaposition of space with the illusion of real space. Ruoff folds space around these passers-by, and thus makes visible the multiple interactions between them and their surroundings enhancing the fact that they are themselves molding the urban area as passers-by. The space is created in its three-dimentionality by virtue of movement and only then realized as a space. This renders possible an intense self-perception of the human being in a space that encloses and includes. Those interactions are confusing non-relationships and in apperception they are, at the same time, ways out of anonymity.
(1) From Michel Foucault, "Des Espaces Autres", lecture for Le Cercle d'Etudes Architecturales, March 14th 1967, in Architecture, Mouvement et Continuité (Paris-1984)
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from March 10, 2011 to April 23, 2011