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Nina Kettiger How many footsteps to create a path? (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Francisverein, Berlin.
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Nina Kettiger 'campfire' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Francisverein, Berlin.
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Nina Kettiger 'turning bones into torches' (2016-17) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Francisverein, Berlin.
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Nina Kettiger How many footsteps to create a path? (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Francisverein, Berlin.
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Nina Kettiger 'untitled' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Francisverein, Berlin.
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Nina Kettiger How many footsteps to create a path? (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Francisverein, Berlin.
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Nina Kettiger 'Candle Holder (bone)' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Francisverein, Berlin.
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Nina Kettiger 'Candle Holder (bone)' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Francisverein, Berlin.
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Nina Kettiger How many footsteps to create a path? (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Francisverein, Berlin.
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Nina Kettiger 'turning bones into torches' (2016-17) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Francisverein, Berlin.

Nina Kettiger’s satanic boutique: How many footsteps to create a path? at Francisverein

, 23 January 2018

Nina Kettiger presented solo exhibition How many footsteps to create a path? at Berlin’s Francisverein which opened October 21 and ran to November 19, 2017.

Nina Kettiger How many footsteps to create a path? (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Francisverein, Berlin.

Minimalistic, the space looks like a boutique clothing store. Pale pastel colours hang around the space on T-shirts – one hung on a clothes hanger, the others draped off of metal protrusions from the wall becoming flags. Clay bones and other skeletal forms become placeholders for candles, with a satanic but playful depiction of the devil C-print framed on the adjacent wall.

 Accompanying the installation is a poem written as the press release, where the Berlin-based artist meanders through words and “paths [that] lead nowhere,” accumulating words of wisdom to “counteract the lack of confidence in myself” and to “turn bones into torches.”**

Nina Kettiger presented solo exhibition How many footsteps to create a path? at Berlin’s Francisverein which opened October 21 and ran to November 19, 2017.