In Search of the Right Angle

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a raw hotdog on a white plate on the ground with grey plastic calculator buttons press into it which read + ÷ = * -

A solo exhibition at the traveling exhibition space 2Walls. In Search of the Right Angle featured 2 sculptures: an elm sapling heat-bent nearly to a ninety degree angle and a sausage with calculator buttons. The tree, Dirk van den Iep, read a portion of its new essay, eponymous to the exhibition title, which used the historical relationship between elm trees and human society as a starting point for the analysis of Western social polarity.

Curation and coordination: Eva van Bemellen

Guidance: Anniek Brattinga, Danny van den Dungen, Jungmyung Lee, Armand Mevis, and Batia Suter

an elm tree with wilting leaves ruptures horizontally through a crevice in a white wall
the same elm tree on the other side of the crevice sitting upright on its roots before bending and passing through the wall horizontally
a person seated on the ground reading a broadsheet viewed from behind a blur of close-up tree leaves
a scan of a folded broadsheet essay set in black, justified serif typography with a small beetle forming an arrow acting as a fold mark

A portion of Dirk’s essay may be read here.