Seventeen Grams of Longing - Garage 766 off-site installation
Garage766 off-site installation is accessible during Daniel Faria Gallery hours, via a map and code provided in person at the gallery.
One enters through a laneway into a private garage - Carl’s workshop. Here he apparently collected glass panes and mirrors, meticulously engraving imagery onto them by transferring the imprints of birds that have collided in full flight with the glass facades and windows. Transforming their ephemeral imprint from the collision into permanent images. The workshop is filled with ornithology books, maps and memorabilia, a chair in the corner is empty, a coffee mug was left half full…Carl's electric engraver is left on the mirror he last worked on...
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Carl installed his engraved mirrors and glass panes against the walls, some are lit from the space in between them and silhouettes of cut-out birds are stacked against the glass. In the joists, a stuffed owl watches over the scene.
In the backspace of the garage, a little studio allows another gaze into the research for this historical fiction, into the themes of bird-migrations, onto vitrines filled with artifacts and memorabilia Iris Häussler collected during the making of the exhibitions.