Nora Schultz's "would you say this is the day?" Exhibition: Exploring Space, Language, and Art

This exhibition by Nora Schultz features everyday objects, language, and recording systems, critically engaging with the exhibition space. It includes large-scale installations, sculptural elements, video works, and a sound installation that plays with the institution's environment.

Nora Schultz's exhibition, 'would you say this is the day?', delves into themes of everyday objects, language, and recording systems, while critically observing the exhibition space and the artist's role within it. The works incorporate various cameras as "co-producers," challenging the authorial position. Schultz often develops large installations through performative interactions that integrate and expand upon the spatial structures. The exhibition in the Secession is based on a multi-layered proposal published in a self-designed catalog, comprising posters and magazines. A transformed calendar sheet serves as a blueprint for the three-dimensional realization of "Atlas / The Day" within the Secession. The exhibition navigates between concept, simulation, and realization, animated by air currents or the ventilation system, where distance itself becomes a medium of production. The central protagonists are "Der Atlas" and "Der Tag," materialized through carefully executed instructions and visualizations. The installation "would you say this is the day?" comprises several elements that interact with the specific architectural conditions of the exhibition space. Three ceiling-to-high sculptures made of aluminum wire, "Atlas / The Day 1, 2, and 3," are distributed throughout the space, creating abstract spatial drawings and revealing the area above the glass ceiling. These sculptures embody different spatializations of a calendar sheet's grid, interpreting the sculptural archetypes "Atlas" and "The Day." Their realization involved close collaboration between the artist and the installation team. A 3 x 6 meter wallpaper, "Hopes and Dreams" (2019), adorns the left end wall, derived from the calendar sheet's subject and enhanced by the artist's interventions, adding a spatial dimension to the temporal framework and influencing the overall impression. Two new video works, "Whale Watch" and "Simulated Whale Watch" (both 2019), are presented in the side aisles. "Whale Watch" documents a whale-watching trip off the coast of Boston, with distortions, while "Simulated Whale Watch" was filmed in the artist's studio using a GoPro, with the artist relinquishing some control by using the camera as an extension of the filming hand. The sound installation "The Sound will be Untied" acts as an invisible framework, conceptually linking the space with the exterior through recordings of the constant hum of the studio's air conditioning system. Drawings for the sculptures and notations by the artist serve as a score for the abstract composition. During opening hours, the garden door is open, allowing ambient sounds to complete the composition. At night, when visitors have left, the circle closes as the sound of the artist's air conditioning overlaps with the Secession's system. All elements aim to approach a space-time body from a distance, whether geographically real or based on imagination and memory, capturing and artistically reinterpreting this system.

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