The British artist duo John Wood and Paul Harrison have placed one or two things horizontally and vertically in the outdoor space in front of the Kestner Gesellschaft and developed a humorous tabula rasa of the everyday.
For the exhibition John Wood and Paul Harrison. something on the front of a building, the new neon installation words on the front of a building (2023) was installed on the facade. In front of the building, in the park of the old St. Nikolai Cemetery, the duo placed the green park signs 10 Signs for a Park (2022). The public sculptures are in direct dialogue with each other and show Wood and Harrison’s ongoing engagement with the overwhelming universe of things, time and boredom, the sober language of everyday life, as well as the tragedy of metaphysical existence, and at the same time question the identity of the site.
