if I touched the earth

IF I TOUCHED THE EARTH // Charlotte Warsen

OPENING // from 6:00 PM with a lyrical duet between Charlotte Warsen and Thien Tran (Rolf-Dieter-Brinkmann Scholarship recipient)

ARTIST TALK // 7:00 PM Art and Science in Dialogue: between Charlotte Warsen and Stefan Niklas (a.r.t.e.s. Scholarship recipient)

CLOSING EVENT // from 6:00 PM with a musical conclusion

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I think, that if I touched the earth,
It would crumble;

The lightness and fragility echoed in these lines from the poem “Clown in the Moon” by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas can also be found in the drawings of Charlotte Warsen. Like a seismograph, her hand captures both inner and outer tensions, carving lines into the paper or leaving faint, barely visible traces on the white surface. In some drawings, hints of landscapes are still recognizable, while in others, mountain ranges and treetops dissolve completely into abstraction. Sometimes there are nervous strokes that branch out and form networks, condensing and then dissolving again; at other times, bold splashes of color float weightlessly across the canvas, entangled in rhizome-like structures or resting softly like cotton balls upon them. The points and lines are scattered across the paper seemingly at random. However, some strokes and areas appear to be intentionally related to one another. Their arrangement fluctuates between order and disorder, system and chaos.
(Corinna Kühn, M.A.)