Sarah Lüdemann
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Cadavre exquis (haptischer Genus), 2020, 6 framed drawings: black pigmented ink, aluminum frame; large floor sculpture: plastic, tape, acrylic paint; 7 floor elements: unfired clay, painted, Dimensions variable
“Cadavre exquis is a surrealist game that was played in the 20th, whereby a piece of paper was drawn on, folded over and passed on, so that the drawing could be extended without knowing its other parts. Mostly creatures were created that way, the head drawn by the first person, the shoulders and arms by another and so on. The game tempts the unknown, the accident, just as much as the collaborative act and very personal expression. The title is strongly expressed in the clay objects, for which the artist worked together with her extensive patch-work family and got the members to leave traces in the clay with their grip. She then assembled the single elements as 7 formations that strongly associate with spinal bones (vertebrates), as well as ancient runes. The plastic blob too bears the gesture of chance making and quick assembly. The material’s characteristics are opposed to those of the clay sculptures and evoke very different physical responses. A similar tension is created in the 6 drawings that combine fast, fleshy gestures with delicate ink drawings. The installation suggests choreographic elements, a sequence of metamorphosed bodies and scripted assembling of bodily elements.” (Sarah Lüdemann (Beauham))
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Cadavre exquis Detail , 2020
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5 things on a line, 2019, Objects: 1. fired clay, 2. drawing, black wooden frame, 3. dried bananas, 4. bones, acrylic paint, brass rod, MDF, black lacquer, 5. plaster, adhesive tape, ca. 150 x 40 cm
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Parlor games - detail, 2021, Parlor games, 2021, room installation with floor elements and game plans, colored washi tape, found mattress wrappings, foam, tape, acrylic paint , dimensions variable
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Parlor games, 2021, Parlor games, 2021, room installation with floor elements and game plans, colored washi tape, found mattress wrappings, foam, tape, acrylic paint,, dimensions variabel
"I don't wanne play that game." The games we play in partnerships, societies, in the office follow rules. Game plans. Playing fields. Vague. Many. Where do you stand now?
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5 things on a line - Detail, 2019, dried Bananas
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Resonator, 2020, found mattress, 7 large-scale drawings, 7 sculptures from unfired lacquered clay, 120 x 200 x 90 cm
Resonator = an oscillating system whose components are tuned to one or more frequencies (natural frequencies) in such a way that the resonator practically oscillates only with these frequencies in case of broadband excitation.
We - the system. Our body perhaps "only" a music box, which one inserts a punched tape, a punched pattern, after which it "plays"? To what extent are we programmed by genetics and environment to have our bodies re-act to each other in a certain way? Do we dance a dance whose step sequence sits between our skins? Are we a musical score?
With this work I ask questions about self/actualization/location and the search for possible identity coordinates in an existing system, determinism and prefabricated scripts of action, but also about the scope of free will and design possibilities of system, body and society. -
Resonator - Detail, 2020, found mattress, 7 large-scale drawings, 7 sculptures from unfired lacquered clay, 120 x 200 x 90 cm
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Mortadella statistics, 2020, Paravan with video loop and publication (Sausage Operations - short manual), pressboard wood, brass hinges and screws, plastic foil, acrylic paint, ca. 220 x 300cm
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Mortadella statistics, 2020, Paravan with video loop and publication (Sausage Operations - short manual), pressboard wood, brass hinges and screws, plastic foil, acrylic paint, ca. 220 x 300cm
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7 Kniffe // 7 pinches, Unfirde clay, lacquer, 7 unique pieces all approx. between 8-12 cm long, 5-7 cm wide, 5-8 cm high
The small edition of 7 different pinches is part of a larger series of hand-made sculptures of unfired, lackered clay. The pale skin colour and forms evoke bodily physicality. I work from anatomical drawings and adapt parts of bone structures, sinews or body parts.
One is always certain to know the form, to have seen it before, but there is never a concrete setting to place it in. The 7 pinches are removed by another degree and emulate 7 different pinches into the body and skin that are frozen in time.
