Nelli Wilhelm
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Two worlds stacked on one another: above, a wintry street with a tower of melting clocks, a giant ear on a wall, loudspeakers with mouths inside them, an eye on a lift door, and luminous figures drifting through a glass stairwell. Below, a snowy shopping street at dusk where one woman's head has become an open book and another's dress a starry sky, a spiral galaxy opens in a wall, and at the right a wooden puppet sits on a heap of gold coins.

Voices of the Unconscious

Eyes see, mouths speak, and a vast ear seems to take everything in. Books, cosmic spaces and human figures turn the city into a landscape of inner perception. The work is concerned with the many signals that reach our awareness each day. Some we understand at once; others stay puzzling and return later as images, thoughts or dreams. The border between outward information and inner voice grows steadily less distinct. “Voices of the Unconscious” asks how much of what we perceive is actually processed consciously.