Wir tun einfach, als ob wir nicht da sind (engl.: We'll just pretend that we aren't here)

Marianne Halter addresses in her work repeatedly issues of spaces and their corporate and social functions. She explores them by means of photographic, moving and drawn imagesas well as text fragments and links them together to create atmospherically dense installations. By restaging familiar motifs and everyday observations, doubt is spread upon the supposedly obvious images that opens them up for reinterpretations. The importance of spaces as a stage and projection room for constant self-assertion of individuals and entire societies is subtly thematised and questioned by Marianne Halters approach. The theoretical base for the solo exhibition Wir tun einfach, als ob wir nicht da sind (engl.: we'll just pretend that we aren't here) are extreme conditions in civilization and nature. Tilting moments, in which the achievements of civilization falter or even collapse. Not the real catastrophe is in the foreground, but the expansion of the moment before, respectively the possible catharsis thereafter. This contrasts with the model of an individual – just like in the exhibited Video Hin und zurück! (engl.: There and Back!) by Marianne Halter and Mario Marchisella, 2015 –which for no apparent reason receives applause from a anonymous audience. The Individual transforms into a prototype and thereby becomes an universal comment, a reflexive meta level - very similar to the chorus in Greek tragedy. As a kind of complementary counterpart to the exhibition of Marianne Halter acts the acoustic intervention Analogue Meditations by actress Julie Bräuning (text / concept), which she performs for the first time live with musician Mario Marchisella. In short sequences everyday, mostly private and analogous actions are meticulously described. These mini pieces contrast and complement the scenery and images of the exhibition, which are located in the public-urban space thematising processes that are disconnected from the individual.