DEEDS CALENDAR: Night Swimming – SCOTTY | 17.11.2023

With artists spanning the media of painting, sculpture, photography, and collage, Night Swimming is a rumination on material’s role in translating and documenting records and information. The included artists use diverse material to track time accumulation or record fleeting yet precise moments and events. Producing documents that function as both mementos and translations that are organized and realized via each artist’s material and conceptual lexicon. The resultant works create an archive of fluctuating objects, translated snapshots, and material and visual accumulation. The show’s title, “Night Swimming,” alludes to the experience of attempting to navigate a murky and vast space while only being able to sense what is in your immediate vicinity. The memory of spaces once seen in the light, the instability of buoyancy, and the lack of stillness in the act of swimming in darkness mirrors the disoriented and vulnerable translation of recollection found in the works included in the exhibition. Like the world obscured by night and water, a clear understanding sits just out of reach.

WHERE?
Oranienstrasse 46
D 10969 Berlin
U-Bahnhof Moritzplatz

WHEN?
Opening: Friday, 17 November 2023, 7 pm
Exhibition dates: Saturday, 18 November – Saturday, 23 December 2023
Thursday – Friday 3-7 pm
Saturday 2-6 pm

Fig. above: Christine Atkinson, A Story you have already heard, 2023, courtesy Scotty