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We see in contrasts. Freedom from pain follows pain, and felicity is the more radiant after a period of misfortune. Happiness, that is to say, displaces unhappiness and is perhaps its recompense; what is certain is that, as antonyms, they are (at least in this world) inconceivable without each other. The contrast they form also underlies the tensions inherent in the works in this catalogue. Some take us straight from the pinnacle of happiness down into the abyss, while in others the gradients of ascent or descent are so gentle that no culmination is perceptible. What all oeuvres gathered in the book have in common is that they furnish the human being, a social creature, with an experience of resonance. Happiness and unhappiness reverberate between the art and the beholders, leaving, in the best case, a lasting impression. Opening the catalogue-- a metaphor for the human condition materialized in paper-- one overhears this serenely melancholy echo of the works.

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Malwin Kraß nigg is a student in the art history institute of the Ruhr-University of Bochum. Natascha Laurier is a student in the art history instiute of the Ruhr-University Bochum. Maike Prause is a student in the art history institute of the Ruhr-University Bochum. Navaz Mirhosseini is a student in the art history institute of the Ruhr-University Bochum. Nell Sophie Bender is a student at the art history institute of Ruhr-University Bochum. Markus Heinzelmann is a professor at the art history institute of Ruhr-University Bochum. His research point is museale practice for international modern art. Caroline Planert is a student in the art history institute of the Ruhr-University Bochum. Elias Bendfeldt is a student at the art history institute of Ruhr-University Bochum. Annabella Ernst is a student at the art history institute of Ruhr-University Bochum. Gina Marie Schwenzfeier is a student in the art history institute of the Ruhr-University Bochum. Yevgenia Belorusets is an artist and writer living and working in Berlin and partly Kiev. Yevgenia is co-founder of the journal Prostory, the journal for literature and art, and a member of the interdisciplinary curatorial collective Hudrada. She works with photography and other forms on the intersection of art, literature and social activism. Her photographic work calls attention to the more vulnerable sections of Ukrainian society - queer families, out-of-work miners, people living in the war zone in the East - and was shown in the Ukrainian pavilion at the 56th and 59th Venice Pavillon. Kira Sophie Rö ller is a student in the art history institute of the Ruhr-University Bochum. Hristina Georgieva is a student in the art history institute of the Ruhr-University Bochum. Julia Neumann is a student in the art history institute of the Ruhr-University Bochum. Annika Gaeth is a student at the art history institute of Ruhr-University Bochum. Laura Berestecki is a student at the art history institute of Ruhr-University Bochum.

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