Installation and Cocoa Ceremony
2019
galerie GEDOK Munich
mice bussard wings, blindworm, beetles, corn, branches, palo santo, moss, c-prints, ritual cutlery, drawings, video performance on tablet “Ritualistic Dialogue” 4:51 min, ceremonial cacao from Peru
The artist's multicultural roots from Europe and Latin America inspired this installation. It is about her experiencing nature as a mystical place and being dependent on technology simultaneously.
From the ceiling in the centre of the gallery hangs an uprooted plant. When someone opens the door to enter the space, the plant moves slightly. Dust and dead bugs seem to have fallen from it.
There is rainbow corn on the floor in the right corner. Next to it, on the wall, are two wings of a predator. On the windowsill, strange broken branches rest on a bed of moos. Opposite to the wings: another branch folded into a triangle.
Then three photographs of heavy green pine boughs. In the gallery's back passage are two display cases: on top of the first is a rainbow steel plate with a mummified blind-worm, a scissor, and a pink envelope with the written tag "tabaco". The other one shows the artist's catalogue magazine on top of palo santo sticks.
The installation closes with three plant drawings and the video "Ritualistic Dialogue", in which Veronika Dräxler and Max Fesl perform different sets of rituals.
The show was closed by the artist with a cocoa ceremonial circle.