Anne Duk Hee Jordan. OF Bodies chang´d to various forms, I sing

“‘In this closed garden of the first observations there always remains the possibility of dreamlike mutation, transformation, protean survival in an ever-changing shape.”

OF bodies chang’d to various forms, I sing… is the solo exhibition of the Berlin-based artist Anne Duk Hee Jordan which aims to shed light on the artists’ creative processes. Entering the realm of Anne Duk Hee Jordan’s work is like walking into a ‚Wunderkammer’. Her work is like an interactive fantasy play with the knowledge and theories about the world and our souls. Wherever there is no accurate knowledge, fantasy runs riot.

Jordan opens up doors to a holistic universe where she, humorously and romantically creates machines that mirror, extend or convert biological processes and chemical reactions between living organisms and dead material, which are then interwoven with classical myth and poetry.

In her work she explores the flow of energies, human constructs of time and memory, decay, death, her own identity and encounters between mankind and nature. All of her works are highly interrelated to one another. The impetus behind her installations is/ are often (a) specific biological process(es) that symbolize a social space, in which she allows certain circulations and prohibits others. Jordan also treats the microscope of her memory like a mirror in which the adventurous gaze projects her own fantasies. Her work adeptly renders the disappearance and reappearance of the physical, even the sexual. This paradoxical force elevates her art into symbols of the transcendent: that which can only appear as an absence in consciousness, summoned into aesthetic form. For her upcoming second solo exhibition at cubus-m, the artist presents two new installations, ‘Springbrunnen’ and Yoko and Ono, focusing on movement, in addition to a selection of her works until now. Aside from her installations, drawings, sketches and photography, the beginning of her ongoing semi-autobiographical filmic work ‘The Last Princess of Mongolia’ will screen. This work deals with her personal background and history, which runs as a red line through her artistic research.

Pauline Doutreluingne, independent curator, who has followed the work of the artist closely since 2011, curated the exhibition and together with gallery cubus-m, they produced a limited edition publication on her work for this occasion. Her latest project was “If You Are So Smart, Why Aint You Rich?”, official parallel project at the Marrakech Biennale 2014

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[1]OF bodies chang’d to various forms, I sing… is the title of the first chapter of “Metamorphoses”, by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BC – AD 17/18), which describes the creation of the world.