carlier | gebauer is happy to announce Marcellvs L.’s second major exhibition with the gallery. In “Infinitesimal” the Brazilian-born and Berlin-based video and sound artist presents two new works, one of which has been produced specifically for this exhibition. His show at carlier | gebauer will be accompanied by a programme of a video screening, as well as by a lecture by philosopher Marcus Steinweg (March 20, 3 pm).

Marcellvs L.’s video and sound works create static environments. They are peaceful yet expand discords; these are worlds of immanence in which classical beauty is offered in a contemporary image world of expanded singularities. In their extremely precise recordings of minute moments, his installations are characterised by an implicit far-reaching impact on recipients’ senses. Narrated meaning is materially absent but returns in the guise of a filter between image and sound, as the impact of the videos is not so much generated by speed, movement or variation, but rather by a calculated and poignant stagnation. In his exhibitions the artist stages improbable, ambient gazes, conveyed through steady and concentrated sounds. Marcellvs L. produces videos that seem to focus on a momentum in which the medium ceases, comes to a standstill, and so seems to return the gaze of another genre, that of painting, whilst at the same time refusing the latter’s contemplation. The beautiful imagery, shifting ambiguously between figuration and abstraction, never allows viewers to simply rest with their associations. The images’ movements are too slow, too imperceptible, too minimal, too amorphous to allow us to identify with the camera’s gaze. Marcellvs L.’s compositions of audio and video compel viewers to adjust to the work, creating an anamorphous gaze in their recipients. Marcellvs L. records structures, entities and individuals¸ reconfiguring as they expand and slotted into an interwoven visuality, from which narration arises anew.

Marcellvs L.’s 2010 exhibition at carlier | gebauer is entitled “Infinitesimal”.  The title refers to numbers that are smaller than the smallest real number yet greater than 0, and thus signifies an order that undermines the binary opposition of nothingness and being. Again a narration is sought in the margins.