The hand draws and forms lines in the space, with material and on the paper. It feels, seeks and touches. A mesh of lines condensates to the boundary between you and me. Between the exposes pieces of the artists Françoise Emmenegger and Christiane Hamacher. Between perception and reality which are difficult to conceive in all their diversity.

When we draw a line, a boundary arises. It marks the empty space that it brakes, develops, delimitates and opens to us. The line develops to a language. The empty space is a mute part of an always changing world. Frail. Tremendous. Perceptible. Sensual. Dancing. Space-occupying. The line develops to a question to us, to the space and the position. Moving. Moving. Restlessness is what concerns us. Are we missing a position, a place in the world?

What we perceive as observer is the bottomless and overwhelming movement of the world. The artworks are incomplete and not comprehensive, but as usual a precarious entity.

The title of the exhibition “limes” hints to boundaries: they are not only between humans, and they have once been considered insurmountable: walls that have been constructed and broken down again.

PHOTOS Primula Bosshard