Martin Maeller / lethargic rays

“In the aftermath that are these stilled forms, tentatively held at a remove, is this processual melancholy of bringing disunities to rest, which might be ascribed to Ferber’s ‘deepening death’. These disidentifications and disharmonies are unresolved, commemoratively laid out like prefigured wounds. In this self-world work is the observance of potentiality at the point of its evacuation of meaning. At the futile vector of asking: What’s left? Empty dimensions cleave deep impressions. The want for that impossible ‘without’, for unhuman thought and remote continuity, where the moon looks away – it is in this atmospheric site of inner life where I am met, making contact through the fog.”

– Alex Bennett (excerpt from curatorial text)

Photographs have been published in Martin's monograph Nervous Dust (2024, Mousse Publishing). Together with photographs from previous exhibition “Nervous Dust” at Kunstverein Göttingen (Germany).

Artist: Martin Maeller

Location: Loggia, Vienna, Austria

Cleint: Martin Maeller, Loggia

Year: 2023