After Images

“After Images” features over 25 works, including six new commissions and interventions that embrace an expanded definition of time-based art.

The upcoming group exhibition “After Images” at JSF Berlin proposes a recalibration of our relationship to contemporary image culture. The exhibition departs from the image-based practices like film and video for which the Julia Stoschek Foundation is best known, expanding the visual toward the haptic and multisensorial, and moving from the space of the screen to the embodied and experiential path of the viewer. “After Images” is curated by Lisa Long, Artistic Director, with support from Line Ajan, Assistant Curator, and Josefin Granetoft, Curatorial Assistant.

Predominant systems of knowledge have elevated sight above the other senses, despite how seeing is constituted from an amalgam of sensory feedback from the entire body. To question this hierarchy of sight above the other senses, “After Images” gathers works that classify as time-based art yet rely on materiality, texture, movement, and immersive experiences that employ sound, light, smell, and touch to convey meaning.

The exhibition will feature several new commissions, including a sound installation by Laurel Halo, an expansive sonic activation by LABOUR (Farahnaz Hatam & Colin Hacklander), an olfactory intervention by Chaveli Sifre, a large-scale installation by Lotus L. Kang, a site-specific sound sculpture by Jesse Stecklow, and a light intervention by Theresa Baumgartner, which will be installed throughout the JSF galleries.

Rosa Barba, Paul Chan, Trisha Donnelly, Laurel Halo, Lotus L. Kang, LABOUR (Farahnaz Hatam & Colin Hacklander), Ghislaine Leung, David Medalla, Carsten Nicolai, Norbert Pape & Simon Speiser, Giovanna Repetto, Chaveli Sifre, Jesse Stecklow, Anicka Yi