The exhibition deals with different perspectives of forms of archiving and the transmission of knowledge and information by taking knowledge into a pre-linguistic state from where its further translation can be renegotiated.

ARTIST

Mariana Hahn lives and works between Berlin and Paris.
After having followed Theater Studies at ETI, Berlin in 2005, she graduated with a Fine Art Degree at Central St. Martins, London in 2012.
Her practice is driven by the exploration of memory and knowledge. Silk, hair, salt and the body are part of her research on memory as its different support and transmission means. She investigates the role and definition of these mediums and their transformation through times and different civilizations.
Her works were exhibited at die Les Rencontres de Arles (Louis Roederer Discover Award), Raeume, PS120, Diskurs, in Berlin; The Mountain View in Shenzhen, Ding Shung Museum in Fujian, Rectory Museum of Contemporary Art in Guangzhou, China; Oktobarski Salon – Belgrade Art Biennial; Galleria Mario Iannelli, Rome; The Trafo Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Stettin, Poland; Biennial For Young Art, Moscow.