With simple materials and minimal interventions, Perrine Lacroix (Lyon / F) creates impressive breaks in perception and irritation. Your exhibition ”Mauer” (Wall) allows diverse and multi-layered references to physical and mental walls.
With simple materials and minimal interventions, Perrine Lacroix creates impressive breaks in perception and irritation.
Her show Mauer (wall) at ESSZIMMER enables complex and versatile references to physical as well as mental walls in the present and the past. The exhibition focuses on the Berlin Wall and on the history of Berlin´s separation. Especially the fate of Winfried Freudenberg in 1989 moved the artist. As one of the last wall´s victims Freudenberg died at his tragic attempt to escape from East to West Germany by riding in a gas balloon, shortly before the Berlin Wall fell. Perrine Lacroix is following the trail of this frontier breakthrough as well as the shadow the Berlin Wall still casts on history.
Material for the exhibition
- Wienerberger GmbH
The exhibition is kindly supported by the Institut Français and the city of Lyon, the Creative Incentive Fund of Rhône-Alpes (FIACRE) and brick producer Wienerberger GmbH, Germany.
