
“LOUISA CLEMENT: REMOTE CONTROL”
Curated by Stefan Gronert
Louisa Clement first attracted my attention with a pile of glassy, inky-black stones on the floorremnants from the process of detoxifying chemical weapons of the kind used in the Syrian civil war. The objects radiated a pure, lethal beauty. Then there were the sleek and sometimes disjointed mannequins she photographed with her iPhone, which possess a similarly terrifying allure, counterbalanced by their lifelessness and artificiality. This antagonism is the young artist’s guiding theme. For her exhibition in Hannover, which will include nearly one hundred works, she