Tinkas warped reality free#

In this context, Nina Schuiki’s persistent preoccupation with transience and continuity also adopts a utopian dimension – after all, she is searching for a time beyond time.

Tinkas warped reality free#

It refers to nostalgia as an incurable illness, as a longing for another time and a primordial form of experiencing the sense of self, free from forced progress and productive time management. The phrase “Hypochondria Heart”, chosen as the title of the exhibition, has been taken from a book by Svetlana Boym. Aristotle cited this use in his philosophy: By challenging us, art brings hidden emotions to light and purifies them. Her works walk the tightrope between comfort and discomfort and serve as an example of a “therapeutic use of art”. And its contemporary nature, its strategic position at a crossroads within society – with all of its trends and problems – also inspires Nina Schuiki in important ways. As a watchword for the visual arts programme in Forum Stadpark, KUNST today means exactly that: Good art is always current. But sometimes it’s the other way around: Life or even a pandemic can enable us to understand art in a new way. Good works of art often manage to make life more understandable to us in new ways. It is not possible to separate the two, because the work fits quite naturally within the framework of experiential and emotional references that we have been given during this momentous year. And still, one has to view the work at present both through the lens of the pandemic and in context with it. The exhibition originally would have been opened in May, so it was already set up before that. “The space should remain as empty as possible I want to emphasise the dialogue that takes place between inside and outside“ wrote Nina Schuiki in February 2020 when describing her site-specific installation.

Susan Sonntag’s statement “We must learn in order to see more, to hear more and to feel more”provides clear instructions for visiting the exhibition.

Instead, the viewers should be given the opportunity to re-activate their senses. Text should not interfere with the sensual experience of art. “Transparency” writes Susan Sonntag “means experiencing the luminosity of the object itself, of all the things in its essence”. The installation created by Nina Schuiki for Forum Stadtpark attempts to carefully expose all that is hidden behind objects, and the text is also intended to emphasise this transparency of the work. What we don’t want to do here is to place an eloquent text in front of the work of art, outlining the only correct and exclusively rational approach to the work.