Limbo Weeks, 2021
single channel video, 8:09 min
About the work"Limbo Weeks" is a Matryoshka, the Russian stacking doll, of a film. Layers inside layers, mothers hidden inside mothers, giving birth to even younger mothers. The sculptural themes are like the interwoven skins of a peeling onion. Bianca Kennedy stages sculptor Fabian Vogler's plaster and bronze figures inside intricately detailed miniature sets, depicting a very peculiar state of human development. In this short seven-week period, nature has not yet decided on a gender for its fetus. In this state of blissful limbo, the characters try to influence their own destiny through changing the water temperature of the bathing mother or playing with the wheel of evolutionary fortune. Several fetuses' journeys are depicted, as they fight their way out of wombs, lose themselves in ritualistic dances and finally shed their golden skin, before reattaching to the severed umbilical cord. Limbo Weeks combines colorful handmade rooms and unique sculptures with ambiguous genders, illuminating the fact that everybody is the result of cosmic coincidence and fate.
AccessionPermanent loan of the Friends of the Kunstpalast - Gift Florian Peters-Messer
Inventory numberZM2022.4
