Jonathan Joosten
ISSUE (series)
ARCHIVED HERO (series)
RE:VISION (series)
CUT-FISHING FOR A VIEW
TRADING POSTmodernity
FOLGE #07 (PILOT)
DOMAIN NOIR
HC (stack-style)
1-ROOM APT.
UT (chamber)
STUFE 01 - STUFUNG 02
ARTIST STATEMENT
EXHIBITIONS
UT (chamber)
UdK | Berlin | 2023
The interactive installation UT (chamber) invites viewers into a fragmented narrative of shared space, anonymity, and the residues of larger systems. It is a study in neutrality and coded functionality, reminiscent of a waiting room where personal histories mingle with institutional purpose. Each element in the space acts as a quiet artifact, suspended between mundane utility and latent symbolism.
A broken Z-chair, from 1972 designed by GDR’s Ernst Moeckel embodies the aspirations and failures of a collapsed political system, its functional form drained of its ideological weight. At the center, a cowboy figure—a toy relic of mass production—reflects a fading myth of individual freedom, now commodified and nostalgic. Finally, a veiled postal cabinet, adorned with tarpaulin and cardboard, speaks to urban transience and the quiet anonymity of communication systems.
Together, these objects inhabit a space of suspension: a decorated waiting room where meaning is deferred and systems reveal their quiet traces.
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