Published 1 SEP 2024

 Opening – 6 SEP 2024, 6-9 pm
7 SEP till 2 NOV 2024

On the occasion of the Berlin Art Week BQ presents the third solo exhibition by Ruth Nemet, born in Tel Aviv 1977, lives and works in Los Angeles. 

The exhibition “A Ghost returns” unfolds a new series of photographs in varying formats depicting (and displacing) segments of a veteran peace activist’s apartment near Tel Aviv. The apartment is clogged, stuffed with books, magazines, and souvenirs. The walls and doors are covered from floor to ceiling by political stickers, posters, and paper clips, amounting to a mixed archive of slogans, objects, and images. The title of the exhibition is inscribed in German above an illustration of Karl Marx doing the V sign embedded in one of the all-over collages, reminiscent to a certain extent of the work of the décollagists or the aesthetics of the bulletin billboard. 

In the exhibition, Nemet implements a correspondence between photography as a mechanism of spectral images and what can be considered in the current political and cultural climate a ghostly way of life involving obsolete means of communication such as printed matter, as well as ideologies and sets of beliefs that seem to have vanished from the public sphere such as Marxism, and in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the perspective of peace and co-existence. All of this resurfaces in the exhibition as a sort of mirage, a material, yet bound to fall, picture of an obscure world.