Christina Hemauer+Roman Keller

Visitors are invited to light and place a candle on a bruliere in a sculpture which mimics the practice of votive offerings in the Roman Catholic Church. The opportunity is presented to make a simple emotionally-charged gesture in the gallery which might be invested with unprescribed personal or global significance. The warm air that ascends from the flames turns a propeller which is suspended above, a device with blades which resembles a modern wind turbine. Devotional Power ambiguously highlights a ritual of collective unspoken conviction while somewhat absurdly demonstrating the potential for exploiting surplus non-spiritual power.
Latitudes (Max Andrews and Mariana Cánepa Luna), originally published for the exhibition catalogue "United Alternative Energies” (2011) at Aarhus Art Building, Centre for Contemporary Art, Aarhus/Denmark.