"... The German word überleben is used for the English survival, but curators Sophie Hamacher and Louise Witthöft pun upon the word’s eerier, literal meaning—“over-life”—by bringing together a group of artists intent on exorcising the Gothic in contemporary life. Nikolai Kaindl’s impressive exhibition structure draws the individual works together, its oversized modular corners both consuming and reflecting the gallery’s “white box.” Constructed from pieced-together triangulated plywood boards, the veritable iceberg houses four narrow chambers distributed about a singular central column. Each is shrouded in inky black; only the light beaming from four television screens flickers comfortingly within, tempting the viewer to penetrate the jagged threshhold and watch..."
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