Artistic Reading with Deborah Jeromin & Katharina Zimmerhackl
Butterflies are considered the symbol of man and his psyche. From different starting points, Deborah Jeromin and Katharina Zimmerhackl followed the modern traces of butterflies and moths in their artistic research work. In her garden, Deborah Jeromin discovered, that it was used for silkworm breeding for parachutes during the Nazi era. 10,000 paratroopers invaded the island of Crete in 1941 and occupied it for 3-4 years. Deborah Jeromin followed the silk threads’ way there and interviewed witnesses about the further processing of the parachutes. In her craft processes, life-historical threads intertwine with the crimes of the Wehrmacht on Crete. Katharina Zimmerhackl was preoccupied with the image of the moth fluttering disoriented around artificial lights, then falling exhausted into rigidity. She associated it with a feeling of political unrest and powerlessness. In an aesthetic-philosophical research, she traced mythical metamorphoses, petrifactions, and fantasies of incorporation, thus analyzing the cultural significance of moths.Using the books „Die Verwechslung der Freiheit“ (Trottoir Noir 2021) and „Fallschirmseide/Μετάξι Αλεξίπτωτων“ (Spector Books 2020) and supplemented by visual and sound art elements, the artists interweave narratives about the little insects and explore their meaning. The reading will be in German.
On 13.07. the event will take place again at 8.30 pm at the Kleingartenmuseum Leipzig.