Introduction

The exhibition The Space That Time Forgot is Angela Bulloch’s first solo exhibition in Munich. The artist offers a constitution creating a multiplicity of spaces by using different mediums – at the same time isolated from and overlapping by each other. All of shown pieces will be especially produced for the challenging exhibition space of the Kunstbau. A three-dimensional time-based representation of a two-dimensional image of planet Earth, as well as a large wall mounted computer processed LED installation, showing an extraterrestrial night sky, project a point of view back into the exhibition space which is always beyond the one taken in by the viewer. Time and space are always doubled, constantly oscillating between here and a no less indistinct there. An ensemble of architectural structures at the back of the exhibition space apparently cite a modernist idiom – an architectural language - while it denounces at the same time any specific designation, function or style. The site is an historical one, yet the modernism it refers to, is at the same time neither its presence, nor its past or future.

At the same time the complete Kunstbau becomes a starting point for a room filling sound installation that is overlapping the single parts. Speakers mounted at the columns are structuring the space along the middle, and run all along from its front to the back: a topologically structured raster made of sound sources, which acoustically produce and redraw the architectural space they are part of. A flock of sounds is moving between the speakers through the space and constitutes it in a new way. The viewer and its presence is no longer moving around objects, but is always already part of a physical movement of sound: atmospheric pressure versus time.