2024 (work in progress)
sculpture, 500 x 500 x 150mm
steel, wax, frankincense, blood, essential oils, chrome
Counting time (with Lampetia and Phaethusa)
Counting time (with chromed blood)
Counting time (with the devil in the details)
Counting time (with a boned cross)
Counting time (with Kerberos and a demon)
Rooting sun
StudioDb, Berlin 2024
Snapshots from solo show on May 30th at Afterhours.zone in Paris: "An evocative solo show by Lauriane Daphne Carl (she/they), a French-German interdisciplinary artist whose work delves deep into the complex interplay between desire and destruction. Based in Berlin and Paris, Carl's interdisciplinary practice dissects the dialectic of desire’s inherent destructiveness against the backdrop of heteropatriarchal power imbalances. Through large-scale, biomorphic installations, Carl explores themes of aggression, resilience, and resistance among women, female-read, and queer subjects within capitalism, utilizing contemporary pop culture and ancient mythology as cultural data carriers.
For this solo show, Carl extends their conceptual exploration to the profound themes of grief and love. Their art becomes a conduit for transformation, examining the materiality of death and the translation of time into material objects through candle-clocks. Carl's work challenges conventional notions of existence and consciousness, inviting viewers to confront the paradoxical nature of life and death. Their immersive installations, featuring time-counting giant candles framed by water-like steel with burnt edges in the shape of mythological creatures and stabbing horns as time markers, promise a journey into the historical complexities of the human psyche and its collapse."