Adrian Williams’s works address tranquil, occasionally wondrous everyday moments. Her mostly narrative works interweave documentary and fictitious elements from changing points of view. Yet her narrative strands always remain fragmentary—and in this way allow for a variety of readings. Williams is versatile in terms of the media she employs: she creates performances, films, objects, as well as works using sound and on paper.

The small-format, delicate works on paper being presented in the large space are associative combinations of seemingly documentary photographs and handwritten prose composed by the artist. They relate stories of apparently trivial or fleeting situations in life and yet point out larger contexts. Without constructing a specific content, the text-image collages open up multilayered spaces of association and develop poetic potential despite their sobriety. They are brief, fragmentary insights into puzzling encounters and peculiar moods in which interhuman relations are revealed, and yet Williams succeeds in sketching and outlining a wide variety of characters and atmospheres.

In addition, the 16mm film TUNING (2012) was produced for the exhibition at the Kunstverein
Braunschweig: a piano tuner is observed at work in calm camera movements and sober, almost documentary shots. Because the looped film gets by without a discernible beginning or end, the object seems to dissolve in a constant process.

Adrian Williams (*1979 in Portland, Oregon, lives in Frankfurt am Main) has participated in numerous group exhibitions, among others at the Portikus, Frankfurt (2011), the KW Berlin (2011), and the MACBA in Barcelona (2010). She studied at the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, as well as at the Cooper Union for Science and Art, New York, and is the co-founder of The Contemporary Library in Priština, Kosovo.

The exhibition is being supported by: 
Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur

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