AORTA
Patricia Kaersenhout, Aorta, 2020 Intervention in public space in Chemnitz (DE) part of the manifestation ‘Gegenwarten | Presences Chemnitz’ running from 15 August till 25 October 2020. The exhibition is curated by Florian Matzner and Sarah Sigmund, and organized by the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz. Photo: Roman Mensing (artdoc.de)
Patricia Kaersenhout, Aorta, 2020 Intervention in public space in Chemnitz (DE) part of the manifestation ‘Gegenwarten | Presences Chemnitz’ running from 15 August till 25 October 2020. The exhibition is curated by Florian Matzner and Sarah Sigmund, and organized by the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz.Photo: Roman Mensing (artdoc.de)
Patricia Kaersenhout, Aorta, 2020 Intervention in public space in Chemnitz (DE) part of the manifestation ‘Gegenwarten | Presences Chemnitz’ running from 15 August till 25 October 2020. The exhibition is curated by Florian Matzner and Sarah Sigmund, and organized by the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz.Photo: Roman Mensing (artdoc.de)
Patricia Kaersenhout, Aorta, 2020 Intervention in public space in Chemnitz (DE) part of the manifestation ‘Gegenwarten | Presences Chemnitz’ running from 15 August till 25 October 2020. The exhibition is curated by Florian Matzner and Sarah Sigmund, and organized by the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz. Photo: Roman Mensing (artdoc.de)
Patricia Kaersenhout, Aorta, 2020 Intervention in public space in Chemnitz (DE) part of the manifestation ‘Gegenwarten | Presences Chemnitz’ running from 15 August till 25 October 2020. The exhibition is curated by Florian Matzner and Sarah Sigmund, and organized by the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz. Photo: Roman Mensing (artdoc.de)
Patricia Kaersenhout, Aorta, 2020 Intervention in public space in Chemnitz (DE) part of the manifestation ‘Gegenwarten | Presences Chemnitz’ running from 15 August till 25 October 2020. The exhibition is curated by Florian Matzner and Sarah Sigmund, and organized by the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz. Photo: Roman Mensing (artdoc.de)
Aorta, an installation in the public space, invites reflection the political meanings of purple while connecting two culturally distinct neighborhoods in Chemnitz. As the aorta supplies oxygenated blood throughout the body, this rail underpass tunnel links Sonneberg, home to a large migrant population, with Chemnitz-Zentrum, where the Kunstsammlungen is located. The tunnel's interior is entirely painted violet and illuminated with blacklight, like an Aorta representing healing and the potential for new ideas to flow into the opposite areas it connects.