<div dir="ltr">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br><div dir="ltr"><div>On Asta Gröting<span style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">, <i>Touch 2017</i>:</span></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Versuchsanordnung</div><br>What Asta does makes me wistful. She renders - and does not overcome - a shortage of skin-to-skin synergy. Like a bell that never rang, her parable stays far from the everyday. Isolated in a dark studio this emblematic experiment could be a dry run for intended body contact. The film is like an exercise whose purpose you only gather after you have done it. (Refrain from touching your pocket computer, every second time you think of it). <br><br><div>Watching the person reaching for the clay over and over again is of similar nature. You feel a strong urge to skip ahead and see what you have known for long; <br></div><div>with kind hand life is sculpting melancholy into human faces. <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 5:06 PM, Daniel Lichtman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danielp73@gmail.com" target="_blank">danielp73@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br>
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<div style="direction:ltr">Video link: <a href="http://astagroeting.de/works/touch-2017/" target="_blank">http://astagroeting.de/works/<wbr>touch-2017/</a></div>
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<div style="direction:ltr">Asta Gröting (b. 1961, Herford) lives and works in Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions include KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany and Kunstraum Dornbirn, Austria. She has had solo exhibitions at ZKM Zentrum für Kunst
und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe; n.b.k., Berlin; Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz; Henry Moore Institute, Leeds; and MARTa Herford. She has participated in numerous large-scale international exhibitions, including 22nd São Paulo Biennial, the 8th and 14th Biennale
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