joerg soechting artwork

the amazing uwe kropinski gives a concert at my studio

three big cardboard shelters. each one with a routesign drawing and  a piece of wood. boxshrubtree or rosewood.

I'm Berlin based, but the carpets are made in Morocco. Let me know which one you like and if you are not in berlin, we can ship them where ever you are... 👋 👋 👋 👋

originally inspiered by the artist´s road trip across the sahara desert in 1986, this exhibition is an elegy to peaceful cohabition, western morals, and the freedom of travel. Today most other travelers would have to risk their lives to cross this stretch of land. This is due to ever shifting geopolitical conflicts in the african continent, with vast swath of land that are now treacherous for migrants, refugees, and travelers. Yet despite the dangers, thousands attempt to flee their homes in order to find peace. As a result, migrants are venturing towards the European Union or the United States out of sheer desperation, but often the refugees are turned away or outwardly resented by followers of far-right politics. Rather than evolve beyond colonial violence, and offer aid to those who are suffering the west has turned its back and only inflictied more corruption and unrest in vulnerable regions of the world. This neglect has let many innocent civiliansfear or suffer through torture, rape, and death. Rather than protect those we hurt over hundreds of years of conquest, we continually enact violence by leaving desperate people with no alternative or escape.

werefugees. Influenced by the high number of refugees from Syria in the year 2015 and based on the writings of Hannah Arendt. A kind of nomadic show. The textileworks are moveable. The stools are standing for  a most simple piece of furniture and done by myself and affordable. A piece of art, a multiple and useful.   

part of the work of my transsaharian route signs. Fragile shelters, open to the elements, built from cardboard in the scale 1:50, painted with oil paint and wax. Filmed hanging from the ceiling, standing on a kind of raft and spinning to gnawa music from morocco

shelter. 

paintings to the transsaharian route sign shelter series

exhibition view at happyluckyno1 in brooklyn

print. 7out of 7. andromache. syrian conflict.

White Trash, Muddy brain, Kids 300x290cm 

#akionda #composition #with #radios #hereandthere #stools #textileart #joergsoechting#exhibition #happyluckyno.1 #painting #brooklyn #nyc #music

series (men at work). capital is by far overrated compared to labor. work in progress.