The real is constituted in the permanent overlap with the symbolic and the imaginary. The weighting in which the three elements intertwine is up to the individual as well as his or her presence. In the work of Bunny Rogers, affect, experience, identification and community, fiction and reality, imagination and physical presence merge into a present subject whose altered perception stands for an entire generation.
Knowledge of the invertebrate creatures in the night-black depths of the oceans is slight, but imagination has been great for centuries. Giant squid, for example, have never been seen in their own habitat, only weakened and confused in harbor, dead on the beach or in the stomachs of sperm whales. Their senses as well as their minds - studies on smaller octopods suggest - are highly sensitive, their perception sophisticated. Because their eyes are extremely sensitive due to comparatively low light loss, they can perceive in the depths of the oceans what remains hidden from us.
In her exhibition Pectus Excavatum, the US artist Bunny Rogers (* 1990) creates a landscape in which inside and outside, mountain peaks and ocean depths slide into one another, thereby exposing the framework of our notions of nature, which are as precise as they are simplified, and in which knowledge and experience are inextricably linked to the imagination. Smells make memories rise, hands freeze in ice. All elements move on the border of naturalism and fiction, they are physically present as well as digitally, experiential space and image at the same time.
Pectus Excavatum is Bunny Rogers' first institutional solo exhibition in Europe.
Opening hours:
Tuesday to Sunday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Wednesday: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Further information: https://www.mmk.art/de/whats-on/bunny-rogers/
