Falling open (not apart) | Margit Brünner

Falling open (not apart) explores the formation of identity as a response to place. For example, the idea of “home” arises exclusively in conjunction with remembered sensations, while a deeper sense of “home” emerges when simply being where the body is and happens without resistance. The presented drawings bear witness to the invention of a fictional method that enables remote communication via the “ether”, entangling two places. By engaging intensively with the Swan River/Derbarl Yerrigan, the body works its way through the place’s subtle layers, at the same time listening to the Onkaparinga River/Ngangkipari, where the body is no longer. The exhibition speaks of the physicality of memory and the ethereal dimensions of place, existing outside of time.