Annette Ruenzler

Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany

At first, Annette Ruenzler’s second solo show at Berlin’s Galerie Kamm seems enigmatic. The press release explains that the show’s French title, ‘Faire la bise’ (Air Kissing) exemplifies an exhibition in which sculptural and photographic works ‘teeter between presence and absence’. This ambiguity is indeed true of an air kiss, the phenomenon so widespread in Basel in June, and in Miami in December; but it is not true of Ruenzler’s exhibition, which is as definite as a kiss on the lips. Definite, though, nevertheless entails a whole set of meanings, each of which can occur in different ways. Definition, in other words, does not enforce singularity.

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