Passage, 2017~, Machine knitted fabrics, various yarns, dimensions variable ©Alternative Space LOOP
Alternative Space LOOP presents “FLUID GROUND”, a solo exhibition by Sascha Pohle (b. 1972), on view through April 30. Sascha Pohle speculates on how contexts are modified and transformed by the migration of technology and culture. His work is often site-specific and includes performative compositions.
The exhibition includes Liquid Grounds, a silent black-and-white video based on 43 glass objects cast in silicone on the floor of the artist’s former home in Amsterdam’s North District. Regardless of Nationality, based on a fresco found in the ruins of the Paestum in Salerno, Italy. And I PACKED MY BAG, in which traces of mesh bags used in former East Germany are molded into clay and fired into ceramics.
From 3 to 5 p.m. each day, a performance of the artist’s Passage series, which he has been working on since 2017, will take place. The Passage series reinterprets uneven surfaces, such as the traces of asphalt roads where the artist lived and the floor of her studio, as soft textile objects that have been made solid but damaged by time.
Sascha Pohle is an artist currently based in Seoul, Germany, and Amsterdam who uses everyday objects such as photography, film, and textiles to blend visual culture. Instead of directive or psychological representation, she abstracts the image of the object and structures the way it is made.
