Exhibition · Belmacz
Hanna Mattes & Eva Mattes
Indien
Nov 18 – Feb 6
3 images · swipe
About the show
On a rooftop in Berlin, Eva and Hanna — mother and daughter — speak of a house in Brandenburg called "India." It is not India; it is here. Horizons captured day after day on the Pacific meet a shimmering curtain of praline foils. "If I put the cup here and say it is art, then it is art," Hanna insists, and the house seems to nod. Their words oscillate — loud / quiet, grief / joy, domestic / monumental — until the imagined praline is unwrapped, comma by comma, each glittering paper a window. Eva says — dušo moja; I hear my grandmother's refrain srce moje—and the house called India becomes a compass: for inheritance, for love, for the fragile line where water turns to air.
—Marija Grujić
About Belmacz
Alluding to both Muggenburg’s founding vision for the gallery as well as her expansive design practice, ‘Belmacz’ is a composite name. Combining the male adjective ‘bel’ (from the French for beautiful), ‘maximum,’ and ‘cz’ (from the Slavic alphabet), the space’s title is a further allusion to the seminal Suzanne Belperron.
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