ELENA KRISTOFOR
Der Wald und das Steppenkind
21 March 2022 - 27 March 2022
21 March 2022 - 27 March 2022
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I only got to know the forest at the age of 16 when I came to Austria. The forest is a space that I cannot classify. It is endless like a steppe where I grew up. But it blocks my view. It has a spatiality in which there is no middle ground. I'm not even sure if there's a foreground either.
There is only the forest. It's a body I can walk through. In which I can move. I am in a substance. In a matter.
In the forest.
In the forest I share the air with the trees. I share my breath with them. The breath is divided into inhalation and exhalation. And a standstill, a stillness in between. Inhaling from the tree. Exhaling into the tree. The tree exhales into me. I exhale through the tree. The tree breathes in through me. This is possibly the most intimate relationship one can have.
I dissolve in the forest.
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- Elena Kristofor












