CYCLIC INDIRECTIONS (2022)


Cyclic Indirections was Luzie Meyer’s first institutional solo exhibition.
It was accompanied by a series of events, including an artist talk, a series of readings, a listening group, and a conversation between Kathrin Bentele (Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf) and Stefanie Kleefeld (Kunsthalle and Kunstmuseum Bremerhaven).

In continuation of her multimedia practice that encompasses performance, film and photography, as well as sound, text and language works, Luzie Meyer developed a sound and video installation for her exhibition Cyclic Indirections that took as a starting point and setting the Simon Loschen lighthouse in Bremerhaven—the oldest landbased lighthouse on the North Sea coast built between 1853 and 1855 by the architect of the same name. Meyer realized a large scale video installation in the main exhibition space where she installed three rotating projectors, making their images and sounds cross and overlap as they kept turning. The footage showed the artist collecting sound samples on various floors of the Bremerhaven Simon Loschen Leuchtturm. The sounds of iron rods, clay bricks, light switches, metal wires, etc. became the base for a chance-generated composition. Meyer also used these same sound samples to compose a sound track for the second moving image work in the show.

The second, eponymous video piece was shown in the Kabinett of the Kunsthalle Bremerhaven. The artist developed the work from the simultaneous encounter with the Simon Loschen Leuchtturm and the reading of Sarah Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology. Departing from the lighthouse’s function as orientation device which interpellates individuals and regulates societal alignment, the artist framed the building as a phallic symbol of subjectivation.