A space for pausing, carrying on, moving on, starting anew. Starting from the English word Solace, the exhibition invites reflection on time, consolation, and related feelings.
Yuki Jungesblut and Hanna Mattes bring together in a stage space created specifically for this purpose photographs, videos, texts and drawings that approach the theme from different perspectives – personal, abstract, always also in engagement with nature. Also on view are works that are still in development and will continue to change, just as consolation is a temporal experience. It does not cancel out loss and pain, but changes our relationship to them: consolation rarely comes as a great moment, more as a slowing down, as a pausing in which time is not merely pressing or slipping away. At the same time it is itself transient and must be found, shared and renewed again and again, in rituals, repetitions and small gestures. Precisely because everything passes, the present moment – {a light, a touch, a conversation) – gains its special weight.