— too bold, too big, to far: Unrealized artworks become visible. Artists from all over connect.
While mobility is restricted, borders and distances are clearly perceptible and existential uncertainties
are omnipresent, more artistic works than ever remain in the state of planning. Whether it fails due to
lack of time, space or money or accompanies your artistic work for years as bold dream — we are looking
for your projects, which have not (yet) made it beyond their state as an idea, concept, draft or prototype.
With this exhibition we want to open up a space and visibility in terms of concepts, sketches, drafts, plans
and photographs. These papers will be presented at the art space BLECH. in Halle, Germany.
At the same time, despite current challenges and immobility, this format allows to present
and bring international artists together. Since many things cannot take place on location and in person,
there will be an online programm additional to the exhibtion. For an exchange and encounters, the
participating artists and their work will be presented and discussed on a digital platform.
— too bold, too big, to far: Unrealized artworks become visible. Artists from all over connect.
While mobility is restricted, borders and distances are clearly perceptible and existential uncertainties
are omnipresent, more artistic works than ever remain in the state of planning. Whether it fails due to
lack of time, space or money or accompanies your artistic work for years as bold dream — we are looking
for your projects, which have not (yet) made it beyond their state as an idea, concept, draft or prototype.
With this exhibition we want to open up a space and visibility in terms of concepts, sketches, drafts, plans
and photographs. These papers will be presented at the art space BLECH. in Halle, Germany.
At the same time, despite current challenges and immobility, this format allows to present
and bring international artists together. Since many things cannot take place on location and in person,
there will be an online programm additional to the exhibtion. For an exchange and encounters, the
participating artists and their work will be presented and discussed on a digital platform.
Cora marin
ABOUT
Cora Marin (Vic, 1991) is a multidisciplinary visual artist and researcher based in Berlin, although her practice often takes her to Barcelona, Athens, and, all in all, into nomadic periods which lead to ‘onthego’ type of artworks. She holds a Fine Arts Diplom from the KHB Berlin, and currently undertakes a ‘Meisterschule’ under the mentorship of artist Nader Ahriman. She also has a background in Philosophy and Comparative Literature, which is present in the constant mergence of ‘the seen’, ‘the thought’, and ‘the written’ in her work, and explains her literary/conceptual contributions and collaborations with several independent publications.
She is a self-published author and internationally-exhibited artist working on a wide range of media, although most known for her collages and socio-political and satirical subject-matters. Outside of her own artistic practice, Cora works as an art educator and researcher, and in cooperation with several institutions and art galleries throughout Europe.
STATEMENT
Cora‘s body of work is a tale of steady, determined dissent and critique.
Her pieces take on many forms and variations - blissful at times,rough and brutal in others, the one thing they have in common is that they tackle (and are keyed to) what the artist considers self-evident conflicts of our times. And they do so whilst tributing the analog (the artisanship, the physical, the palpable, the “prior to virtual” in art making): hence the recurrent use of political activism-linked oldschool techniques such as letterpress and analog collaging in her pieces. Rooted in a crucible of deep idealism and radical satire, Cora believes in opening non-conformative debates through aesthetically pleasing (yet demand loaded) works that invite - and aim to trigger - collective debate and intersectional research.
We asked ...
What makes unrealized projects and works special to you?
Their raw and unfiltered character. They are hesitant, yet confident. Wild and naive. Precisely because they’re in the making (which to me means: there’ll be time for corrections later) they come out fearless, like visceral and unpolished notes of an original and pure idea which has not yet been submitted to scrutiny.
How does it feel for you as an artist not to be able to realize an artwork?
Like the most dreadful and detrimental hangover of a lifetime. Like the holly mother of all headaches knocking on my door with impeccably burdensome timing. It brings with it great loads of stress and irritation. It takes years off of my lifespan and erradicates all hopes of a good night’s sleep. It is absolutely no bueno.
BUT there’s a silverlining to it all: trying times force one to face and address obstacles in new-found ways. I am the kind of person who’s easily triggered by a challenge, so trouble keeps me on my toes.
What do the terms ‘possible’ and ‘impossible’ mean in the context of your artistic practice?
‘Impossible’ as a notion is pretty abstract in my case, because it mostly means I can’t afford to produce a specific work (the materials and handwork are far off my budget) but I still don’t quite manage to put the idea to sleep. I’ll mostly place it in my back burner and wait for more prosperous times and/or a grant to come.
Possible, on the other hand, is what happens in my studio every day.
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