Simon Lässig
Simon Lässig at Bonner Kunstverein 2023
Simon Lässig at Bonner Kunstverein 2023
Simon Lässig , Adoption, We hear how the orphans approach the house. Hear a woman leaving her room to await them in the courtyard. The woman and one of the girls will grow very close. They will begin to understand each other's lives and loneliness. This is their first contact. Lives in which they are placed in a near relation to a world over which their lives, joined to it, have no power of being received. From here on their thoughts, views and feelings will connect and become one. She knew that all was decided, we had to whisper, she had only to keep silent., 2023, digital video, sound, 4:37 min.
Simon Lässig , Adoption, We hear how the orphans approach the house. Hear a woman leaving her room to await them in the courtyard. The woman and one of the girls will grow very close. They will begin to understand each other's lives and loneliness. This is their first contact. Lives in which they are placed in a near relation to a world over which their lives, joined to it, have no power of being received. From here on their thoughts, views and feelings will connect and become one. She knew that all was decided, we had to whisper, she had only to keep silent., 2023, digital video, sound, 4:37 min.
Installation view, Bonner Kunstverein, 2023
Installation view, Bonner Kunstverein, 2023
Installation view, Bonner Kunstverein, 2023
Installation view, Bonner Kunstverein, 2023
Simon Lässig, Adoption, An image already received early in life shows itself again and I am reminded of the feeling in the way that a life must remain in relation to this image. We hoped for some small means of improvement, whatever it might be; she knew that all was decided, we had to whisper, she had only to keep silent., 2023, digital video, sound, 3:48 min.
Simon Lässig, Adoption, An image already received early in life shows itself again and I am reminded of the feeling in the way that a life must remain in relation to this image. We hoped for some small means of improvement, whatever it might be; she knew that all was decided, we had to whisper, she had only to keep silent., 2023, digital video, sound, 3:48 min.
Simon Lässig, Untitled, 2023, object taken from family member, 18,4 × 14,3 cm
Simon Lässig, Untitled, 2023, object taken from family member, 18,4 × 14,3 cm
Simon Lässig, There’s something like pain in the room, and it’s partly overcome: but the weight of objects wins, 2023, Silver gelatine print on Wephota paper, aluminum frame, 32,4 × 26,6 cm
Simon Lässig, There’s something like pain in the room, and it’s partly overcome: but the weight of objects wins, 2023, Silver gelatine print on Wephota paper, aluminum frame, 32,4 × 26,6 cm
Simon Lässig, There’s something like a destination in the room, and it has already taken place: but the weight of its direction lasts, 2023, Silver gelatine print on Wephota paper, aluminum frame, 32,4 × 26,6 cm
Simon Lässig, There’s something like a destination in the room, and it has already taken place: but the weight of its direction lasts, 2023, Silver gelatine print on Wephota paper, aluminum frame, 32,4 × 26,6 cm
Simon Lässig, how one learns to look through other people how we take in, adapt and alter their thoughts, views and feelings. And if the rest of the film speaks about how we mimic and repeat-about how we are conditioned-then these stretched 2 minutes and 23 seconds remind us of the opposite: Of a moment in which we look out into the world and do not see ourselves reflected back. A reality comes into being that is closed off and something I've seen before repeats itself., 2023, Silver gelatine print on ORWO paper, aluminum frame, 43 x 60,4 cm
Simon Lässig, how one learns to look through other people how we take in, adapt and alter their thoughts, views and feelings. And if the rest of the film speaks about how we mimic and repeat-about how we are conditioned-then these stretched 2 minutes and 23 seconds remind us of the opposite: Of a moment in which we look out into the world and do not see ourselves reflected back. A reality comes into being that is closed off and something I've seen before repeats itself., 2023, Silver gelatine print on ORWO paper, aluminum frame, 43 x 60,4 cm
Simon Lässig, how one learns to look through other people how we take in, adapt and alter their thoughts, views and feelings. And if the rest of the film speaks about how we mimic and repeat-about how we are conditioned-then these stretched 2 minutes and 23 seconds remind us of the opposite: Of a moment in which we look out into the world and do not see ourselves reflected back. A reality comes into being that is closed off and something I've seen before repeats itself., 2023, Silver gelatine print on ORWO paper, aluminum frame, 43 x 60,4 cm
Simon Lässig, how one learns to look through other people how we take in, adapt and alter their thoughts, views and feelings. And if the rest of the film speaks about how we mimic and repeat-about how we are conditioned-then these stretched 2 minutes and 23 seconds remind us of the opposite: Of a moment in which we look out into the world and do not see ourselves reflected back. A reality comes into being that is closed off and something I've seen before repeats itself., 2023, Silver gelatine print on ORWO paper, aluminum frame, 43 x 60,4 cm
Simon Lässig, how one learns to look through other people how we take in, adapt and alter their thoughts, views and feelings. And if the rest of the film speaks about how we mimic and repeat-about how we are conditioned-then these stretched 2 minutes and 23 seconds remind us of the opposite: Of a moment in which we look out into the world and do not see ourselves reflected back. A reality comes into being that is closed off and something I've seen before repeats itself., 2023, Silver gelatine print on ORWO paper, aluminum frame, 43 x 60,4 cm
Simon Lässig, how one learns to look through other people how we take in, adapt and alter their thoughts, views and feelings. And if the rest of the film speaks about how we mimic and repeat-about how we are conditioned-then these stretched 2 minutes and 23 seconds remind us of the opposite: Of a moment in which we look out into the world and do not see ourselves reflected back. A reality comes into being that is closed off and something I've seen before repeats itself., 2023, Silver gelatine print on ORWO paper, aluminum frame, 43 x 60,4 cm
Simon Lässig, how one learns to look through other people how we take in, adapt and alter their thoughts, views and feelings. And if the rest of the film speaks about how we mimic and repeat-about how we are conditioned-then these stretched 2 minutes and 23 seconds remind us of the opposite: Of a moment in which we look out into the world and do not see ourselves reflected back. A reality comes into being that is closed off and something I've seen before repeats itself., 2023, Silver gelatine print on ORWO paper, aluminum frame, 43 x 60,4 cm
Simon Lässig, how one learns to look through other people how we take in, adapt and alter their thoughts, views and feelings. And if the rest of the film speaks about how we mimic and repeat-about how we are conditioned-then these stretched 2 minutes and 23 seconds remind us of the opposite: Of a moment in which we look out into the world and do not see ourselves reflected back. A reality comes into being that is closed off and something I've seen before repeats itself., 2023, Silver gelatine print on ORWO paper, aluminum frame, 43 x 60,4 cm
Simon Lässig, 2:23 minutes from: Anyaság, 1974, As I watch Anyaság (Motherhood) from 1974, I come to know again how one learns to look through other people, how we take in, adapt, and alter their thoughts, views, and feelings. And if the rest of the film speaks about how we mimic and repeat–about how we are conditioned–then these stretched 2 minutes and 23 seconds remind us of the opposite: Of a moment in which we look out into the world and do not see ourselves reflected back. A reality comes into being that is closed off and something I’ve seen before repeats itself., 2022, Digital video, sound, 4:46 Min.,
Installation view, Elene Chantladze, Simon Lässig, LC Queisser, Tbilisi, 2023
Simon Lässig, 2:23 minutes from: Anyaság, 1974, As I watch Anyaság (Motherhood) from 1974, I come to know again how one learns to look through other people, how we take in, adapt, and alter their thoughts, views, and feelings. And if the rest of the film speaks about how we mimic and repeat–about how we are conditioned–then these stretched 2 minutes and 23 seconds remind us of the opposite: Of a moment in which we look out into the world and do not see ourselves reflected back. A reality comes into being that is closed off and something I’ve seen before repeats itself., 2022, Digital video, sound, 4:46 Min.,
Installation view, Elene Chantladze, Simon Lässig, LC Queisser, Tbilisi, 2023
Installation view, Fanta-MLN, 2022
Installation view, Fanta-MLN, 2022
Simon Lässig, Untitled, 2021, Monitor, metal case, digital images, 41 × 33,4 × 3,9 cm, 29:18 min, loop
Simon Lässig, Untitled, 2021, Monitor, metal case, digital images, 41 × 33,4 × 3,9 cm, 29:18 min, loop
Simon Lässig, Untitled, 2021, wool, cardboard, 73 × 189 cm
Simon Lässig, Untitled, 2021, wool, cardboard, 73 × 189 cm
Simon Lässig (b. 1992, Germany) works and lives in Berlin. His recent solo exhibitions include Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn; LC Queisser with Elene Chantladze (2023); Fanta-MLN, Milan (2022), FELIX GAUDLITZ, Vienna; Mavra, Berlin (2019). Lässig’s work and screenings have been included in exhibitions at Condo Complex, London (2024); Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (2023); Fluentum Collection, Berlin; FELIX GAUDLITZ, Vienna; UA26, Vienna, (2022); KOW, Berlin; Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Oberhausen (2021); Portikus, Frankfurt; Lars Friedrich, Berlin; Kunstverein München, Munich; Fanta-MLN, Milan (2020); Nous Moules, Vienna (2019).