Veronika Neukirch (2022)
Glazed stoneware brackets, kiln-formed glass
35 x 45 x 28cm
Font design by Eilis Searson for this project’s artist publication (email to order: 10£ +postage)
Veronika Neukirch (2022)
Performance with Naja Hendriksen: 7-10min
Polystyrene, polyurethane, MDF, timber, ply, sealer, filler, emulsion paint, rope, fixtures
Variable height x 170 x 90cm
Veronika Neukirch (2022)
Kiln-formed glass, stoneware
20 x 47 x 26cm
Veronika Neukirch (2022)
Glazed stoneware bracket, kiln-formed glass
24 x 62 x 27cm
Veronika Neukirch (2022)
Kiln-formed glass, metal brackets
31 x 60 x 28cm
‘Stones of fire’ …fire up my neurons.
Brilliance reveals depth:
A polished surface of translucent matter
tricks light into entering - in part.
Some spinning photons bounce right off the slippery surface.
Those that flow through, risk getting split into prismed fractions.
My gaze rides the rays of light;
Invited in, through the sparkling membrane;
Time. slows. down.
A bubble here, a gurgle there,
trapped in a frozen sphere of air.
That rigid solid…
[My cell of air] --surrounded by layers of unflinching glass--
is the viewing platform to the universe.
Glass is to space what vacuum is to air
Air captures space and space captures air,
folding in and out… and in… and out…
Glass locks me in, or does it lock me out?
Tempting visual access, faux proximity, frozen liquidity, drooping surrealism, decelerating time
coming to a halt.
Veronika Neukirch (2022)
Glazed ceramics, mirror, revolving display platform, kiln-formed glass
70 x 79 x 24cm
Veronika Neukirch (2022)
Glazed stoneware bracket, water glass, kiln-formed glass, tubes
32 x 63 x 36cm
way down
Why is translucency so alluring?
We mine, cut, carve and polish gems – insisting they are rare.
A 3-dimensional shape that displays its full volume
to hold precious moments, sentiments and wealth – longer than the human lives attached.
Glass is cheap but it represents the future, not specific pasts.
Our vision is entirely dependent on light
and seeing is believing!
What do they make of light under the sea?
Submerged in a translucent substance, a rare glimmer attracts..
Follow the fish, following the chlorophyll, following the sun..!
If you don’t fall prey to strategically placed, lethal organic luminosity,
a constant upward motion should be passed down through generations
and along the branches of evolution’s ancestry trees.
Look at the light
It’s beautiful.
Follow the light
Where to?
Up
No, deeper into the collective subconscious.
Across time.
The slippery shifting pattern of broken light twinkling through water
is the oldest of spectacles.
Hard-wired neural circuits - inherited from sea creatures;
Dormant alcoves of our mind: tickled and unlocked.