Opening: May 23, 2024, 7 PM Duration: May 24 – June 29, 2024
In Bernd Oppl’s works for the exhibition “Phantom Power” several thematic and aesthetic threads converge, which have been present in the artist’s work for some time. However, each convergence in this case is just another form of unravelling: Oppl’s works – whether in the form of models, photographs, sound installations, or moving image works as projections and on displays – fundamentally deal with the uncertainty of perception in a world where the visible and audible are always material (magnetic tape, concrete, glass, the White Cube, etc.) and virtual at the same time, thus situating the world mostly in an uncanny intermediate space: present and absent, tangible and ephemeral, external and internalised, both all-encompassing and radically confined.
