15/09/2026
“Although absent in representational terms, the body is constitutive of Porter’s work. As an absent operator, it acts as a condition of production. In a quasi-alchemical logic of material reconfiguration, the ashes return as geometric forms. They also shift from being a remainder of something that has happened to something that still carries the capacity to create. As Ned Lukacher writes in his introduction to Jacques Derrida’s Cinders (1991), a cinder ‘is a very fragile entity that falls to dust, that crumbles and disperses.’ But cinders also name the resilience and the intractability of what is most delicate and most vulnerable.”
Hit the link in bio to read Nina Porter “Sample Question,” Kunstverein in Hamburg reviewed by Katrin Krumm from 356 Fall 2026.
Porter’s show “Sample Question” is currently on view at the Kunstverein in Hamburg until September 22, 2026