JEPPE HEIN: EVERY MOMENT IS A NEW MOMENT
KÖNIG BERGSON announces EVERY MOMENT IS A NEW MOMENT by the artist Jeppe Hein. 14 works populate the spaces, many of which employ mirrored surfaces, enabling viewers to become momentary participants in the reflected worlds engendered by Hein’s characteristic sense of inclusion.
July 13 - September 1, 2024
In the long corridors of the silos, viewers become involved in animating these modes of engagement, either by pausing to look and reflect or by interacting with the exhibited artworks and engaging with other visitors. Jeppe Hein’s playful approach encourages participation and raises awareness, mindfulness and empathy giving his works a social quality.
In the first room of the silo, the work EVERY MOMENT IS A NEW MOMENT, 2020, greets visitors and lays the groundwork for the transformations and transfigurations of perception to come. The rotational movement of the mirrored disc creates a disjointed apprehension of the space, as if the room were perpetually reconstructed by an ever-changing combination of reflected fragments, reminiscent of the view through a kaleidoscope.
BREATHE ME IN BREATHE ME OUT, 2023, follows, another mirrored work, this time with white neon letters that illuminate with the specific sequence of the titular phrase, appealing to viewers to breathe accordingly, and in so doing, encouraging an acute awareness of the present moment. In the same room, viewers are given the opportunity to visualize their mood on one of the wooden panels, while a mirror in the shape of a speech bubble asks to SAY IT ALL WITHOUT SAYING ANYTHING, 2022.
Further iterations of Hein’s long-standing artistic practice are also displayed, such as the spellbinding 2004 work, FUSION OF MOVEMENT, which captures a radical mode of equivalence between transformation and stasis, as a series of metal cubes welded into each other resemble a cube turning from one side to the next in different stages, and the six-sided viewing device that makes viewers aware of the limitations as well as the possibilities inherent in the act of looking.
An equally blurred perception of space arises while walking into the last silo, where a curved line of mirror lamellae placed equal distances apart describes the form of a speech bubble (SPEECH BUBBLE MIRROR LABYRINTH I, 2023).
In the capacious Atrium of the Bergson Kunstkraftwerk, EVERY MOMENT IS A NEW MOMENT continues with more MIRROR BALLONS and a selection of ROTATING MIRRORS, 2018, using these subtle devices to challenge our perception and visually transform other reaches of the former industrial site.