Lucia Kempkes, 'A Stream of Thoughts to Detach Us From The Current,' 2022 at Pavillon Tiergarten. Image Courtesy of the artist and MMXX.
Founded in 2020 in response to the pandemic, MMXX is a Berlin-based art initiative that opens up a discourse surrounding art and the public space. Through its temporary exhibition spaces, MMXX offers young artists the opportunity to address this conversation, while dealing with “contemporary art’s aesthetic and socio-political implications.”
The initiative’s most recent installation is Lucia Kempkes’ A Stream of Thoughts to Detach Us From The Current; a stone paper sculpture of a kayak placed in a glass cabinet at Mathilde-Jakob-Platz. Through this piece, which decomposes into dust when exposed to sunlight, Kempke examines the desire to explore through a variety of questions surrounding social inequality, the pandemic and climate change. Kempke’s piece poses questions such as; “Who has the privilege of feeling wanderlust? Is travel a limited resource and how is it distributed?”. Filled with multiple interpretations, the work invites the viewer to engage with the piece conceptually and to consider the place that contemporary art has within the socio-political conversation.
Lucia Kempkes, 'A Stream of Thoughts to Detach Us From The Current,' 2022. Image Courtesy of the artist and MMXX.
Lucia Kempkes’ A Stream of Thoughts to Detach Us From The Current is available to view at Mathilde-Jacob-Platz 1, 10551 Berlin-Tiergarten from now until 5th May 2022 as part of Berlin’s Gallery Weekend.
Lucia Kempkes, 'A Stream of Thoughts to Detach Us From The Current,' 2022 at Pavillon Tiergarten. Image Courtesy of the artist and MMXX.