PERFECT IMPERFECT
The Transience of Things
Concept and Curation by Hayley Ferber and Priska Juschka
Exhibition Dates: August 7 – August 28, 2024

OPENING RECEPTION:
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7 | 6 – 8 PM

Co-curated by independent curator Hayley Ferber and Lichtundfire’s gallery director Priska Juschka, the exhibition seeks to widen the concept of carefully curated group exhibition by featuring visual relationships on a numerically larger scale as part of LICHTUNDFIREcuratorial.

Based upon an Open Call, PERFECT IMPERFECT, with works in various media, painting, photography, sculpture, works on paper and mixed media, is inspired by the profound aesthetics of the philosophical practice and world view of the Japanese Wabi-Sabi.

Taken from the Japanese words wabi, which translates to less is more, and sabi, which means attentive melancholy, Wabi-Sabi refers to an awareness of the transient nature of all things and to a corresponding pleasure in all that bears the mark of impermanence.

This exhibition explores the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete – moving beyond the conventional idea of the pursuit of perfection and into the realm of a deliberate aesthetic and artistic decision of leaving a work, its composition, medium, materials, surface a.o. in a way that is considered not entirely fully executed, finished, polished, smooth or otherwise completed to perfection.