Madeleine Boschan at Autocenter
Madeleine Boschan is showing seven new works in a solo show called ›Niteflix‹. They are on view until Saturday at the laudable, non-for-profit, independent art space Autocenter.
Niteflix are dreams as complex as feature length films – and so is Boschan’s show. The pieces play tricks on your mind. While asking “What am I?”, they change their nature right in front of your eyes. One second, they seem to be some kind of fabulous, fictitious animals, gathering in a flock around a piece called ›Moloko‹. That’s Russian for milk, and the title sets the mood for looking at this big white piece coming from above as some kind of a motherly creature. Then again, the works look like pieces of furniture – furniture that you can actually use, made of chairs, steering wheels, lamps, ashtrays, mirrors, thermometers, sun-blinds and all kinds of other bulky waste, mostly from the 1980s and 90s. Furniture like one of those multi-functional chairs you sit in at the dentist’s.
White being the dominant colour of the works, their neon lights set highlights within the single work and the whole exhibition. With this surreal illumination, ›Niteflix‹ suddenly makes sense. Are these objects for real? Are they creatures, furniture, lamps? Oh wait, now I know. They are sculptures. And protagonists in your very own feature length film.
›Schwarze Weisheit‹, 2011
Madeleine Boschan: Niteflix. At Autocenter, Eldenaer Str. 34 a, above the Lidl supermarket. On view until April 9th, 2011.
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