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... the singularity advanced by Walde's work suggests something hopeful. It invites us to rethink and re-imagine the ways in which we recognise, perceive and approach art, and at times, reality.

Performative Interaction p. 1, 2
Green Gel p. 2
The Invisible Line p. 3 I consider that we are participating in an optimistic time of re-destinations rather than deconstructions, where new horizons for art and communication are appearing. It is a celebration of otherness and a surrendering of the autocracy of high Modernist authority to a more democratic model. Attraction and repulsion, longing and denial, seduction and rejection are all part of the relationship of the individual with regard to various forms of authority-based thinking (State, institutional, social and cultural). Walde's work ephemerally traces the shifting away from autocratic paradigms of thinking (including globalisation) and from instituted forms of control to a celebration of otherness with its desire for openness, change and individual cultural difference. His work questions the changes happening on the social, historical level, and patriarchal models of behaviour based on the institution of authority versus the emerging, more flexible values that invite dialogue. In the process, the artwork and artist risk the nocturnal, the unknown, the love and the wounding that might go along with such experimentation that gently traces the sway between silence and the voice.
Handmates p. 4
Tie or Untie p. 4
The Big Perch p. 5
Loosing Control p. 6
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
    The last two decades have demonstrated an incredible international desire for cultural self-determination. Two opposing global tendencies have been demonstrated in this time: capital-driven globalisation led by major international mega-corporations, and the claim of smaller interests struggling for their individual voice. Walde's work determinedly supports the underdog position that aims for singularities, and a diversity of experiences and voices that Deleuze and Guattari termed "a rhizomatics of communication". In the end it is a question of ethics and how art addresses this issue. If we do not pay enough attention, if we lose the opportunity of being open-minded we will only regret our neglect of the infinitesimally delicate web of everyday life. As the saying goes, "God is in the details" the ephemeral, subtle, unpredictable, and always fragile weaves of our lives.
   
   
   
   
     
   
 
 
 
 
 
The text »Letting Go« by Maia Damianovic appeared in the exhibition catalogue
»Martin Walde«, Villa Arson, Nice and Städtische Galerie Nordhorn (Ed.), 2003.
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