Kitty Kraus’s exhibition at Kunstverein München is dedicated to a single new work: a path that seems to have no end. A mirror, lit from behind, casts a long black shadow across the floor. For that shadow to resolve into a perfectly straight line, and for the line to continue as a path, the light has to behave in a way that artificial light normally does not. Sunlight can achieve this effortlessly, its rays reaching the earth in near-parallel lines. A lamp has no such distance to work with: positioned close to what it illuminates, the rays fan out from a single point so that, instead of running straight, the shadow cast diverges. Kraus works against this condition using a tightly focused light source of almost blinding intensity and an arrangement of mirrors.
The tour on November 3 will be held in English. The tours on October 28 and November 11 will be held in German.
More information about the exhibition is available on our website. Participation in the tour is free with an exhibition ticket.