other object of our modern technical civilization offers such  attractive power as screen of projection and identification for the individual phantasies of happiness than the car.


With the help of a kitchy pearl curtain from a builder's supply store the artist practises magic to a paradise-like scene  onto the facing wall of the room in the basement.
A swan majestically draws its lanes in the water. A tree crown in the upper picture third rounds up this idyll. But it is too beautiful to be true, and wouldn't be a work of Christine Carstens, who asks sybill-like questions and lets flash up the other side of things diabolically. In the upper left though a red sign with  EXIT on it opens up the idyll and brings into play again the door. Is there an exit? Who wants to exit the paradise when all want to get in?
Exit - where to? Behind that there is only a wall. There is not exit, or is there?
Through minor changes the artist shows the items of everyday life with  their double face. The artistic work process it the essential. The deconstruction of existing material. The decomposition of mechanical patterns of perception, to bring about new appearance possibilities. She uses the technics of medial cross-over with unbelievable effects. As always with Christine carstens she intertains us with irony and humour.
Congitive processes should activate  and stimulate the onlooker, and inspired by the presentation produce new pictures in the head. In the works of the artist we meet movement and change, a medial wandering between genres and technics. With this cross-over between genres and technics as she presents it here in this installation  the art works change depending on the situation from object to graphic, to an installation, to a picture and vice versa.
The contextualization of the work in the special room situation shows the fine feeling  for the topography of the place.
 
End: Aren't we always opening and closing doors, aren't we always on the go between door and hinge (the german: Zwischen Tuer und Angel - see first page of this exhibition archive page) moving on the path, looking for our 'angel'  and the paradise?

Thankyou for your attention and I wish you a paradise-like evening in this exhibition.

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