Isabelle Krieg: Ridiculous Eternity
William Blake
The number 8 leads a wayward double life: in a horizontal position, it has no longer any numerical
value 鈥� for example the sum of 4 + 4鈥�; its meaning is still mathematical, yet beyond all numbers.
The term 鈥榚ternity鈥� resides in that undefined space between mathematics, philosophy and theology.
It is quite difficult to grasp. One could scoff that by dealing with eternity the mathematician
becomes a philosopher, the philosopher a theologian and ultimately the theologian an agnostic.
In her oeuvre, Isabelle Krieg (*1971) reflects willfully themes that oscillate between finiteness and
eternity. She deals with this question鈥檚 pathetic grandness in a playful, humorous and tender way.
With 鈥淟盲cherliche Ewigkeit鈥� (ludicrous eternity), the title of her solo exhibition at Christinger De
Mayo, she describes the inconceivability of eternity as impertinence 鈥� thereby referring to Roland
Barthes.
Poetry is one of the fiercest weapons in art. It does not analyze, does not attempt to display the
unimaginable; it rather undermines the questions of life by mirroring and sublimating them. William
Blake emphasizes an essential point; eternity is not only the antagonist of art, nemesis and horror
vacui, but an important source of inspiration and muse. Isabelle Krieg鈥檚 new work does not affront
eternity; no, it seduces eternity.
William Blake
The number 8 leads a wayward double life: in a horizontal position, it has no longer any numerical
value 鈥� for example the sum of 4 + 4鈥�; its meaning is still mathematical, yet beyond all numbers.
The term 鈥榚ternity鈥� resides in that undefined space between mathematics, philosophy and theology.
It is quite difficult to grasp. One could scoff that by dealing with eternity the mathematician
becomes a philosopher, the philosopher a theologian and ultimately the theologian an agnostic.
In her oeuvre, Isabelle Krieg (*1971) reflects willfully themes that oscillate between finiteness and
eternity. She deals with this question鈥檚 pathetic grandness in a playful, humorous and tender way.
With 鈥淟盲cherliche Ewigkeit鈥� (ludicrous eternity), the title of her solo exhibition at Christinger De
Mayo, she describes the inconceivability of eternity as impertinence 鈥� thereby referring to Roland
Barthes.
Poetry is one of the fiercest weapons in art. It does not analyze, does not attempt to display the
unimaginable; it rather undermines the questions of life by mirroring and sublimating them. William
Blake emphasizes an essential point; eternity is not only the antagonist of art, nemesis and horror
vacui, but an important source of inspiration and muse. Isabelle Krieg鈥檚 new work does not affront
eternity; no, it seduces eternity.
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