If We Opened People Up, We’d Find Landscapes exhibition poster

Poster design for an exhibition shown in December 2021 at the Artrmx e.V. in Cologne, Germany. Curated by Christopher Gerberding, the show features works by Collectif Grapain, Claus Georg Stabe, and Malte Taffner.

Some centuries ago, although not that many, the reality of an ordinary person was that of being in two places at once. The pre-industrial individual lived the reality of their life of work, as well as the reality of their belief in an active exchange with the divine. Here is an exhibition about how our lived reality has, in much the same way, crossed over with the digital. While they are not quite on a mystical quest, in the work of Collectif Grapain, Claus Georg Stabe, and Malte Taffner, we find a particular sensitivity for process. Brought together here are positions that contemplate what it takes to arrive somewhere in this world between the body and the machine, and what at times can go wrong along the way.

The poster typography combines Media Sans Condensed (Production Type) with Suisse Int’l (Swiss Typefaces)