Liquidity
Benjamin Janzen & Hsu Yi Ting
15. – 19.8.2024
Double Show:
Benjamin Janzen:
Sprung über die Elbe / Jumping over the Elbe
sculpture, material samples, documentsHsu Yi Ting:
Video, Sculpture, Document
Liquidity – is the second Double Solo Exhibition of an exchange project between two young artists from Taiwan and Germany in 2024. The project focuses on the field characteristics of „waterways“, taking the Tamsui River between Taipei and New Taipei City and the Elbe River in Hamburg as their field of research.
Harbors, as the specific side of trade, are social and material places of liquidity. The upcoming exhibition in FRISE is taking a peek into this process of material transformation, in relation to market dynamics. The displayed works move between biological research, institutional critique and socio-political mapping.The focussing lies on the deepening and re-siltation of the Elbe river and its effect on local city development and global trade.
Hsu continued her 2022 project „Mud Metamorphoses I,“ focused on Elbe siltation and China-Germany trade. She now expanded her research to the security of resources in the semiconductor industry, exploring the intersection of environmental and geopolitical issues. Her works reveal the inevitable conflict and vulnerability within this intermediary state.
The work of Benjamin Janzen is based on material research in a side specific context. It narrates the history and transformation of the area that today houses the “wild forest” in Wilhelmsburg alongside material samples, historical archives and documents of contemporary urban planning.
Gefördert durch die Behörde für Kultur und Medien der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg
HSU Yi Ting’s exhibition is supported by Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government.