LILI HUSTON-HERTERICH
words about dependencies contact

You May Bargain!

Part of the exhibition Midnight Sunburn
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
Curated by Nathalie Hartjes

July 10-14, 2019

‘I get tied up following some threads. Instead of thinking through, I follow sideways, from multiple directions at once. I spend a lot of time untangling knots in the studio. Threaded material gets moved around and every time it relocates, knots form. Some kind of memory of a change, a trace of an encounter, showing a complexity of being within a world. Unknotting these knots could be the performance of re- collecting when, or where, or how they occurred, inevitably involving speculation or mediation. It takes some time to get through certain knots.

Read full conversation with Katarina Zdjelar, edited by Daniel Tuomey, here.


Scroll to end of page to see video works.

left: Princess Winter Goes to Town On Purpose, right: You May Bargain (photo by Tor Jonsson, 2019)
You May Bargain, transparent vinyl & vinyl lettering (photo by Tor Jonsson, 2019)
left: Princess Winter Goes to Town On Purpose, right: You May Bargain (photo by Tor Jonsson, 2019)
Princess Winter Goes to Town On Purpose, welded steel, plaster, found fabric, found jewelry, thread, candy (photo by Tor Jonsson, 2019)
detail: Princess Winter Goes to Town On Purpose (photo by Tor Jonsson, 2019)
detail: Princess Winter Goes to Town On Purpose (photo by Tor Jonsson, 2019)
detail: Princess Winter Goes to Town On Purpose (photo by Tor Jonsson, 2019)
detail: Princess Winter Goes to Town On Purpose (photo by Tor Jonsson, 2019)
detail: Princess Winter Goes to Town On Purpose (photo by Tor Jonsson, 2019)
detail: Princess Winter Goes to Town On Purpose (photo by Tor Jonsson, 2019)
detail: Princess Winter Goes to Town On Purpose (photo by Tor Jonsson, 2019)
Cotton thread curtain with Waterfall Jail (presennted in reverse), acrylic on fabric (photo by Tor Jonsson, 2019)
detail: Cotton thread curtain with Waterfall Jail (presennted in reverse), acrylic on fabric (photo by Tor Jonsson, 2019)
detail: Cotton thread curtain (photo by Tor Jonsson, 2019)
detail: Cotton thread curtain with Waterfall Jail (presented in reverse) (photo by Tor Jonsson, 2019)
left: Attention Wallet, digital video, right: You May Bargain!, digital video (photo by Tor Jonsson, 2019)
You May Bargain!, digital video with black cut curtain (photo by Tor Jonsson, 2019)
detail: Black cut curtain (photo by Tor Jonsson, 2019)
Attention Wallet (photo by Tor Jonsson, 2019)
Attention Wallet (photo by Tor Jonsson, 2019)
Attention Wallet (photo by Tor Jonsson, 2019)
Attention Wallet with black velvet wall (photo by Tor Jonsson, 2019)

Works:

Princess Winter Goes to Town on Purpose, welded steel, plaster, found clothing, thread, candy, 500 x 100 x 250cm, 2019

YOU MAY BARGAIN! I KNOW YOU MAY., transparent and opaque vinyl on glass, dimensions variable, 2019

Waterfall Jail, acrylic on fabric, thread, 250 x 300cm, 2019

Attention Wallet, HD video, 13’00”, 2019 (with Aria Delanoche, Meg Huston, William Huston, & Princess Winter)

You May Bargain, video, 27’00”, 2019


Thank you to: Katharina Cameron, Meg Huston, Werner Herterich, Elizabeth Huston-Herterich, Tor Jonsson, Nick Thomas and Angharad Williams.