2. Alex Reynolds
By Day
8 April to 14 May
Moltkestr 81, Cologne
Images / Text
Our senses tell an inaccurate story, as impenetrable as a foreign tongue. The meanings of images are half-buried, covered just so you might see a sliver of its edge; well beyond reach, though the aperture is too small to reach through anyhow. Movement toward tomorrow is impossible and the narrative begins to turn in upon itself, the denouement loses its grip and slides towards the middle. Wildlife, dialogue, chronology, noise merge in and out while manipulated by a shifting agent.
The archival fragments and staged setpieces assemble a rhythmic order chalking out the camera as an entity – one directly culpable toward the course of action. Stalking its subjects through fleeting glimpses, bearing down without ever acquiring them.
Alex Reynolds constructs cinematic scenarios from fiction, image, uncertainty, and detachment. A film shot from an unrehearsed script. A live soundtrack of an unwitting public. A personal, sensory tour of an otherwise unfamiliar city. A series of returned correspondence which you (evidently) posted to a stranger. Your voice, played as a musical instrument from across an ocean. A reinterpretation a town's siege and destruction, from a woman's long-forgotten testimonial.
A text by Daniel Sedcontra accompanies the exhibition.
For the opening evening (Friday 8 April) three guests will be voiced, live and on the hour: producer / curator Anna Manubens, artist Tamar Guimaraes, and computer /interface / designer Robert Ochshorn.
Alex Reynolds was born 1978 in Bilbao and works between Brussels and Berlin. She studied at Central Saint Martins and Goldsmiths in London, and was a resident at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2014-15.