{"id":9904,"date":"2022-05-03T18:21:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T16:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/?p=9904"},"modified":"2024-01-22T16:08:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T14:08:16","slug":"artwork-of-the-month-may-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/?p=9904","title":{"rendered":"Artwork of the Month \/ May 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>K\u00f6rper (Body\/Bodies)<\/em><\/span><\/strong>
\nThyra Schmidt<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

2021
\ntwo pieces:
\nsilkscreen on handmade paper
\nframed (maple), each 62 x 82,5 cm<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Translation<\/em><\/p>\n

K\u00f6rper I<\/strong><\/p>\n

This music!
\n\"\"<\/a>I remember your smell.<\/p>\n

And suddenly I feel your excitement,
\nwhich is now mine.<\/p>\n

\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013<\/p>\n

K\u00f6rper II<\/strong><\/p>\n

I look at you.
\nAs if you were touching me.<\/span>
\nThe imagination of your body still reaches me.<\/p>\n

The picture flickers.<\/p>\n

\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013<\/p>\n

K\u00f6rper [Body\/Bodies] by Thyra Schmidt is an artwork in two pieces: framed silkscreen prints on handmade paper. Each work contains a text in German by the artist. However, for the viewer the person speaking remains unknown. The letters are printed in a creamlike colour, thus there is only a minimal contrast to the paper. Therefore, they seem to be imbedded in the soft paper, which is rather a muted white than a brilliant white. This presentation reflects the intimate content of the texts. Moreover, the typeset (line breaks, blank lines and indentation) slows the reading tempo down, since it predefines shorter and longer breaks.<\/p>\n

K\u00f6rper I starts with the exclamation \u201cThis music!\u201d and then refers to the memory of another person\u2019s smell, presumably recalled by the music. This remembrance induces the perception of the other one\u2019s excitement and transfers it to the speaker. Evidently, the other person is absent. Nonetheless, the sensations evoked by the music are so strong that the feelings have a physical impact.<\/p>\n

The first sentence of K\u00f6rper II seems to reverse the absence for a moment, since the speaker seems to watch the other one. However, the next line about a hypothetical physical contact reveals the lack of real presence. Nevertheless, the idea of it still remains, yet the image fades away. Hence, the two texts describe a development of alienation, caused by an enduring distance.<\/p>\n

Since the intimate imagination of the other\u2019s body could express his\/her missing company and with that the deprivation of haptic sensation, the texts could speak about a temporal or permanent loss, caused by a journey, illness, separation or even death. This fits to Thyra\u2019s general interest in human relations. In her works, she reflects on proximity and distance. Her mainly textual-based oeuvre describes internal and external perceptions \u2013 experiences that changed during the pandemic. Therefore, K\u00f6rper points to the lack of physical contact due to lockdowns and limited personal contacts. At the same time, it refers to the changed communication, which shifted to digital-based relations.<\/p>\n

In this sense, K\u00f6rper I might recount the feelings during a meeting via internet, where two persons listened to music together. Here the music stands for a shared sensory experience, despite the physical distance. Such a virtual encounter could even evoke physical reactions. In K\u00f6rper II, on the other hand, the emotional distance increases, regardless of the visual contact. This alienation is provoked by the lack of corporal contact and the unsatisfactory medium of communication. \u201cThe picture flickers.\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Thyra Schmidt<\/strong><\/p>\n

Born in Pinneberg, Germany (1974) Thyra studied fine arts (painting and photography) at the University of Applied Sciences and Art<\/a><\/span> in Hannover under Peter Tuma<\/a><\/span> (1996-2000). After a guest residence at the Hiroshima City University<\/a><\/span>, Japan (1999-2000), she frequented the University of Art (HBK<\/span><\/a>) in Braunschweig under D\u00f6rte Ei\u00dffeldt<\/a><\/span> (2000-2001). From 2001 to 2005, she was student at the Academy of Fine Arts D\u00fcsseldorf<\/a><\/span>, in the class of Thomas Ruff<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Together with other students of Thomas Ruff, she founded the artist group FEHLSTELLE<\/a><\/span> in 2003, which realised art-projects in public space until 2012 in Germany and abroad. Thyra\u2019s individual works are sometimes situated in public space like \u201cI can\u2019t just be nowhere\u201d in cooperation with the Goethe-Institute in Oslo<\/a><\/span>, Norway and \u201cStaccato<\/a><\/span>\u201d for the Kunstverein Paderborn<\/a><\/span>, Germany.<\/p>\n

Besides photography, Thyra already started in 2007 to experiment with scripture. For her participation at the \u201cCongress of Futurologists\u201d in Eisenh\u00fcttenstadt, Germany, she asked people to write words or small sentences on paper provided by her. Since this time, she reflects on images that are formed by writings. For \u201cI can\u2019t just be nowhere<\/a><\/span>\u201d in Oslo she combined text and photo. The texts were quotes by different authors, partly modified by her.<\/p>\n

Progressively, Thyra evolved from her initially mostly photo-based works to text dominated. In her solo exhibition in 2015 \u201cBlaue T-Shirts, Jeans und Turnschuhe<\/a><\/span>\u201d (Blue T-shirts, Jeans and Trainers) at Martin Leyer-Pritzkow<\/a><\/span>, D\u00fcsseldorf, there were seven texts and only two photos. As supplement to the exhibition, the artist published in 2017 a small book including new works of the series from 2016. Therein are five photos and thirteen texts, all by herself. The arrangement of the words indicates how the sentence should be read, with breaks for dwell time. Moreover, these texts can be received as abstract pictures, especially for non-German speakers and particularly for people who cannot read Latin letters.<\/p>\n

During her artist residence in Hongcheon in 2017, South Korea, Thyra created a work, once again a text. Since it was exposed at the fa\u00e7ade of the Hongcheon Art Museum, it was translated into Korean. For the average western onlooker, who cannot read the letters the abstraction is evident. \ub450 \uce5c\uad6c\uac00 \uadf8 \ubc29\uc744 \ub5a0\ub09c\ub2e4. \uadf8\ub9ac\uace0 \ub2e4\ub978 \uae38\ub85c \uac78\uc5b4\uac04\ub2e4 (Two friends leave the room and walk in different directions) was our artwork of the month of October 2017<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

In 2019, Thyra edited her artist book \u201c\u00dcber Diebe und die Liebe. On Thieves and Love<\/a><\/span>.\u201d with an English translation by Enrico Nake<\/a><\/span>, published by the edition cantz. For this, she transformed the typographic sheets from her exhibition \u201c\u00dcber Diebe und die Liebe\u201d at Neuer Kunstverein Wuppertal<\/a><\/span> into a hardcover. By the insertion of blank pages, she extended the gaps created by the layout of the text.<\/p>\n

In her solo exhibition \u201cRendezvous<\/a><\/span>\u201d at Martin Leyer-Pritzkow in D\u00fcsseldorf (2020), Thyra presented several flower still-lifes and one typographic sheet. Whereas her solo show \u201cinnen inside int\u00e9rieur<\/a><\/span>\u201d, at the K\u00fcnstlerloge Ratingen<\/a><\/span> (2021) consisted of a text in three parts, which was originally composed in German and translated into English and French and printed on separated sheets.<\/p>\n

Thyra\u2019s works were shown in numerous individual and group exhibitions in Germany and other countries such as the Netherlands, Brazil, South Korea, Japan, China and the United States. She recently participated in group shows as \u201cPictured as a Poem\u201d at KAI 10|Arthena Foundation<\/a><\/span>, \u201cthe kitchen happening<\/a><\/span>\u201d by artist Judith Samen<\/a><\/span> and \u201cSehnsucht nach dem Jetzt<\/a><\/span>\u201d (Longing for the Now), Part III at Weltkunstzimmer<\/a><\/span>, all in D\u00fcsseldorf (2021). Besides, she taught artistic photography at the University of Cologne<\/a><\/span> from 2015 until 2017 and initialised with Hannes Norberg<\/a><\/span> the platform for artistic photography \u201cNeue Fotografie<\/a><\/span>\u201d in D\u00fcsseldorf in 2017. Moreover, she was awarded with several grants and artist in residencies in Germany and abroad. Additionally, she curated exhibitions and published artist books by herself and in collaboration with other creatives.<\/p>\n

Thyra lives and works in D\u00fcsseldorf.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/thyraschmidt.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

K\u00f6rper (Body\/Bodies) Thyra Schmidt 2021 two pieces: silkscreen on handmade paper framed (maple), each 62 x 82,5 cm   Translation K\u00f6rper I This music! I remember your smell. And suddenly I feel your excitement, which is now mine. \u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013 K\u00f6rper II I look at you. As if you were touching me. The imagination of your… (read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3145,9,3142,3141,3140,3139,2581,3143,3144,67],"class_list":["post-9904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artwork-of-the-month","tag-alienation","tag-artwork-of-the-month","tag-bodies","tag-body","tag-korper","tag-may-2022","tag-memory","tag-physical-contact","tag-separation","tag-thyra-schmidt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artificialis.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}