Installation
print on aluverbundplatte, 99 x 70 cm
big and fresh flower bouquet

Readymade
artificial cherry blossom tree, rented

So each one loses himself for the other’s sake, and loses the other and many others who wanted still to come. And loses the expanses and possibilities, exchanges the drawing near and fleeting away of gentle, presageful things for a sterile helplessness out of which nothing more can come; nothing but a little disgust, disillusion and poverty and deliverance into one of the many conventions which are set up in large numbers as public refuges along this most dangerous of roads.

No region of human experience is so well supplied with conventions as this; life-belts of the most varied invention, boats and swimming-bladders are there, social perception has contrived to create shelters of every description, for as it was disposed to take love-life as a pleasure, it had to mould into something easy, cheap, innocuous and safe, as public pleasures are.

– Rainer Maria Rilke in correspondence with Franz Xaver Kappus.

Performance, in collaboration with Steph Joyce

While we are moving through the empty room, we are scrooling through our instagram accounts, alternately describing what is depicted on our own posted instagram pictures.

written poems, ink on paper

Lichtinstallation
ca 15 x 15 cm

Annika Stoll
*1990 in Hessen, currently based in Leipzig

www.annikastoll.de