Duo-Show with Kanta Kimura at Alte Limofabrik in Koblenz/Germany. (6.9.-13.9.2025)
The exhibition Transients brings together the practices of Clemens Behr and Kanta Kimura in a dialogue between order and dissolution, construction and fragility. The title refers to states of transition—those fleeting moments where material, sound, and structure shift from one form into another. Both artists, though working with different media, share a fascination for these in-between conditions: Kimura through his paintings that oscillate between control and spontaneous gesture, Behr through his sculptural installations that navigate the tension between building and breaking down.
Within this context, Behr presents “Modular Monument for the Lost Potentials (In C in Ruins)”. The work combines visual languages of cyberpunk and early science fiction film sets with the idea of artificial ruins—architectures that seem both futuristic and already decayed. Constructed from industrial and recycled materials, the installation unfolds as a fragmented monument, a hybrid between machine body and architectural relic.
Embedded within the structure are custom-built speakers, which play transposed and fragmented passages of Terry Riley’s In C. The iconic composition of Minimal Music is here reduced to deep, resonant sub-bass frequencies, recalling the sound worlds of early hardcore jungle and the first experiments in generative electronic music. The result is a sculptural sound environment that vibrates with a sense of both nostalgia and unrealized futures: a monument not to what was, but to what could have been.
Transients thus frames the exhibition as a meeting point of two practices exploring instability, impermanence, and transformation—where painting, installation, and sound open up shifting spaces of imagination.
