The Pot made of Fragrant Wood. Contains one Black Ball or Two Glass Eyes, 2010

The black ball I bought in Warsaw in about 2004; the glass eyes were movie props and had originally come from the practice of a Berlin ophthalmologist who inserted glass eyes; and the container of Moroccan root wood is from a Paris flea market. It is, in other words, the only object that actually consists of several objects of different origin.

In my painting you see only the closed container. “The small black pot with the ball, that’s the magic. You open it, and inside is the mystery.” (Alejandro Jodorowsky)

It turned out that the ball behaved in a similar way to the wandering meteorite; both wanted to go from one place to another, show up here and there and pass through several hands.

The ball wanted to move or transport times and spaces. It also wanted to turn into an egg that multiplies into apples.

See also:
The World of Gimel, 2011
La pierre, la boule, les yeux. Conversation entre El Hadji Sy et Antje Majewski, Dakar 2010
One Black Ball and Two Glass Eyes, 2010

Text:
Antje Majewski, One black ball and two glass eyes

Exhibitions:
Die Gimel-Welt. Wie die Objekte zum Sprechen kommen, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, AT, 2011
The Guardian of All Things that are the Case, neugerriemschneider 2011
Der Apfel. Eine Einführung (immer und immer und immer wieder), Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, DE

Publications:
Jach, Aleksandra; Sokolowska, Joanna; Majewski, Antje; Patton, Amy; Titz, Susanne; Apples. Over and over and once again / Apfel. Wieder und wieder und immer wieder; Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach and Berlin / New York: Sternberg Press, 2016
Budak, Adam; Pakesch, Peter (eds.). Antje Majewski, The World of Gimel. How to Make Objects Talk. Exh. Cat. Graz: Kunsthaus Graz / Universalmuseum Joanneum, and Berlin / New York: Sternberg Press, 2011.