Paula Doephner »I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin'«
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Paula Doepfner "I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin'"
March 22 to June 29, 2025 As part of the INTERIOR cooperation project In cooperation with the Centre for Cognitive Science and the Systems Neurophysiology working group of the Department of Biology
With "I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin'", the Kunstforum der TU Darmstadt presents a solo exhibition by Paula Doepfner (*1980, Berlin). Her artistic practice is multimedia and includes drawings, objects and installations, often made of materials such as bulletproof glass, ice and other organic substances. The exhibition will feature a series of drawings as well as a larger wall piece and installations, some of which will be presented to the public for the first time.
Her delicate drawings of tiny letters are reminiscent of neuronal networks and areas of the human brain. They are in fact based on sketches she made as a spectator during brain operations and autopsies at the Charité hospital in Berlin. As delicate and floating as these filigree drawings appear, the textual basis can be heavy.
Destruction and violence are also the origin of her sculptural works made of glass. The brief moment of stone impact in the cracked, shattered armored glass panes of banks and luxury properties that she uses is still immanent - but it is supplemented by color pigments and thus takes on another dimension.
In her works, Paula Doepfner deals with existential themes and human suffering. She uses texts by Paul Celan, the Canadian poet Anne Carson and the surrealist author Joyce Mansour, among others. She combines the texts with passages from the so-called Istanbul Protocol, a manual for the investigation and documentation of torture.
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