Credit: Amy Feldman This weekend I visited Amy Feldman‘s exhibition „Breath Myth“ at Blain Southern Gallery in Berlin.
Enter – an industrial, rectangular space – large grey-toned canvasses with primal doodles on them. The aesthetic is visceral and abstract, solid and hollow, dirty and clean at the same time. The doodles remind one of intestines but all the formations are complete, and thus unlike intestinal or airway passages. The playful, yet serious character of the images is mirrored in their titles: blatantly as in „Jolly Gloom“, jarringly as in „Chronic Comic“ or subtly as in „Ghost Host“ or, indeed, the title of the exhibition „Breath Myth“.
„Breath Myth“ – that‘s a puzzling and yet catchy phrase wherein an immediate physical need is paired with an idea that owes its existence to being locked in time. This play with words contains as well as opens up possibilities of contemplating what breath might mean, in general and individually. In the context of natural breathwork, one could not express the variable and invariable process of being with one’s breath with more certainty than Amy Feldman does when she talks about her art:
„Within the last few years, my process has evolved and I have become more excited each time I am faced with a blank surface. It feels like getting a second chance over and over again, which I imagine is the ultimate sense of freedom.“
Source: http://www.blainsouthern.com/exhibitions/2017/breath-myth