Rosa Zangenberg exists somewhere between the creative and the academic, because she is interested in keeping that unsettling and undeniable feeling—the rudimentariness—at the forefront of their artistic research practice. Sometimes she turns to the visual, to painting, and calls herself an artist, albeit with the wobbly wavering that goes with it, and the material result is wobbly all the same; stuplime, wordless vents in the form of paintings that demand inconvenience in their context.
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For the group exhibition Some World Futures, at Nest in Den Haag (2020), I created two new paintings. The two paintings I presented are swathed in a substantial layer of self-pity. I often find myself within this state. I find self-pity comforting since any form of blame is pushed away from myself. It is the perfect escape plan. I escape from the reality in which this state of mind, of course, is a big disservice to myself as it will challenge any attempt of staying with the real trouble. I may not be able to stop pitying myself but now I am aware. My paintings reflect on this. This is the first, little baby step.
Photographs by Charlott Marcus
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