While creating together for the exhibition, Radenko Milak and Andreas Duscha found a way to combine their working methods: Duscha’s conceptual photographic approach, based on side notes and everyday observations, comes together with Milak’s drawn and painted processing and interpretation of media images.

The starting material for Andreas Duscha’s artwork is the floral decorations used at climate conferences and political meetings in Europe and internationally. These seemingly inconsequential decorations are a subtle, and often overlooked, medium. The combination of flower species that do not occur together in nature reflects in some ways the artificiality and staging of the events. The artist searched media archives for press photos showing these flower bouquets – often seen only as an inconspicuous detail in the background, half-cropped out of the image. The selected bouquets were rearranged and photographed in the studio and are presented as contact prints.

The sphere is the basic shape from which we can imagine the endless connections that create and weave the world together. Spheres represent ideas of interconnection. Our living spaces go from the intimate bubble to the fragmented foam of modern societies, passing through the unified, totalizing globe. Spherology helps us understand how people create, inhabit, and sustain “spheres” of meaning at different scales.

→ Andreas Duscha

→ Radenko Milak