While blindfolded, attendees are lead to a forest in Buckow, Märkische Schweiz. Once at 52°33’44.1”N 14°03’12.8”E, the exact Global Positioning System coordinate of the installation titled Isolation, the blindfolds are removed to reveal a white-box gallery space containing the local environment.
“As you warily tread the muddy ground, your eyes adjust to bright white fluorescent light,” said alexander levy, a gallery representing Knecht. “A trickle of water catches your ear. You arrive, surrounded on all sides by windowless white walls, in a truncated thatch of forest.”
“The smell of damp earth slows your pace as you navigate the terrain of fallen logs and low growing shrubs,” added alexander levy. “Venturing beyond the first enclosure, a well-trampled corridor opens onto another white-walled room. The sound leads you along a stream fringed by greenery towards a small waterfall, whose pool offers a rippling reflection of the harsh ceiling lights. Every leaf is thrown into sharp relief against the saturated hues of the forest floor.”
