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Kunstpalast Wedding International
29.08 - 07.09.2025
MIK NIM moves between different cities, consciously taking on the position of the visitor and the stranger. The work presented in this exhibition is based on her experiences in Kiel. There, through her landlady who worked at a plankton filter company, she came across such filter fragments and used them as camera lenses. The lights filmed during Kiel Week – from fireworks to fairgrounds – thus appear fragmented and pixelated. The process of filtering, breaking, and splitting light refuses a unified perspective and instead makes a fragmentary perception visible. It becomes a metaphor for “partial truths” and “incomplete identities” that emerge in the process of temporary residence and constant movement.
The installation also integrates the leftover filter materials, making visible filtering as a visual expression of what is allowed to pass through and what is held back. This expands into a metaphor for the relationship to the Other. Filtering is understood here not only as a physical but also as a social process: the “seeing” of the Other, the “judging” of the Other, the relationship between witness and stranger. The work raises questions of alterity and identity that arise in the context of chance, place, and movement, and invites viewers to reflect that their own perception of the world is always structured by invisible filters.
She installed a video inside the remains of a tiled stove, which reminded her of the stove in her first apartment in Berlin. The projection, using filter fragments from Kiel, transforms light, space, and movement into a fragmented visual language. In this way, the work connects personal memories, the experience of foreignness, and the philosophical reflection on filtering as a metaphor for perception, uncertainty, and incompleteness.
