Kai Althoff: and then leave me to the common swifts
Exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, “Kai Althoff: and then leave me to the common swifts (und dann uberlasst mich den mauerseglern)”, features Althoff’s artworks that was created throughout his artistic career. Curated an designed by himself, this exhibition features a variety of artworks ranging from drawings, paintings, photographs, mannequins, antiques, figurines and shoes.
Identified as a person with little to no interest in art, my first visit to an art exhibition was met with a mixed-feeling. I was looking at the artworks with such amazement but what’s the meaning behind them? Is there even a deeper meaning to them?
One section of the room, for example, showcase a dirty piles of luggage and broken ceramic pieces spilling out of old suitcases. What’s the purpose of this artworks?
As I navigate my way through the maze, one drawing did caught my attention. It was an untitled (2016) black and white sketch of a boy in his early twenties standing in a field of grass. It wasn’t particularly elaborate as the other artworks in the exhibition. But something about this boy attracts me to him….