Display #9 - Nora Mertes @ Greylight Projects in Heerlen, NL

For the DISPLAY program in 2020 Greylight Projects invites curators working in the Euregion for a proposal out of their museum collection or recent program. For this edition we invited Frank-Thorsten Moll, director of the contemporary art museum IKOB in Eupen. . He selected the work ‘Ein auf seinen Grundriss reduzierter Stein im Maßstab 1 : 1 ‘ by Nora Mertes. This work was part of the exhibition ‘A Critical Inventory of the IKOB Collection’ which was on show in IKOB in 2019.
“With the grinding of the rock down to a thin, minimal surface, the rock is present as a medium; but the surface, together with the title, points towards a graphic, planimetrical representation. Is the stone surface accordingly a reference to the rock, which was originally shaped like a mountain – in other words, a sign? Can a sign consist of the same material as the original towards which it points? Or is it a matter here of a new original, a flat rock which refers to nothing other than itself?” (Nora Mertes, 2013)
“This exhibition (A Critical Inventory of the IKOB Collection) is conceived as an invitation to communication: above all between the IKOB and the female artists represented in its collection, but also among visitors, both female and male, who have not seen many of these works of art for a long time or possibly never at all.” (source: www.ikob.be)
More information about Nora Mertes her work can be found on her website: www.noramertes.be.

ATTENTION!!! THE EXHIBITION TAKES PLACE IN HEERLEN. DO NOT BE DISAPPOINTED THAT THE EXHIBITION IS NOT SHOWN AT THE IKOB.