Lucas Hirsch


Birkenstr. 92
40233 Düsseldorf
Mi–Fr: 13–18 Uhr
Sa: 13–16 Uhr
T +49 (0) 178-69 49 087
Exhibitions
The Houses Of The Serpent Bearer. The 6th House
Laura Sebastianes – curated by Pina Bendfeld
Info: A folded screen too slight to conceal, a fountain that spills only a whisper of water, an oven that holds a small, flickering fire. These are artifacts, but not of a past we recall—rather, they gesture toward a past that never was, or a future that waits in the wings. They are not objects of utility, nor mere ornaments; they stand, instead, as quiet interruptions, as containers of stories not yet told. To name a thing is to trap it, to force it into a role it may not wish to play. And yet, these artifacts slip between names. They hold the shape of the known but function outside of expectation. They are things as Ursula K. Le Guin imagined them: carriers, vessels, not weapons of power but receptacles of possibility. The warmth of an oven is not in the fire alone, but in the memory of gathered bodies. A screen, even when too delicate to obscure entirely, still suggests the intimacy of spaces shaped by its presence. Objects, Graham Harman might say, withdraw. They recede even as they are held, revealing only fragments of themselves, their essence always elsewhere. And yet, in their withdrawal, they allure. We reach for them, sensing their refusal to be fully grasped. These artifacts are not static; they vibrate with what they could have been and with what they might still become. (…)
