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Halfsister Berlin
Torgauer Straße 1
10829 Berlin, next to Südkreuz

27-28 June
AFTER PROJECTION

Friday 18:00 – 21:00
Saturday 16:00 – 21:00

With:
Montika Kham-on, Seawon Park (Won), Paloma Schnitzer and Laurenzio Tani

Friday
20:30  Montika Kham-on – Ritual Cinema performance 

“Everything exists as an image, if projected.”

Projection is often seen as a neutral act: light meets surface, and meaning emerges. But what if projection is not about showing, not about transmitting, but about arrival, possession, or invasion? What comes after projection, after the screen, after clarity, after intention?

This project reimagines projection not as narrative delivery, but as a site of uncertainty, transformation, and reception. We invoke the idea of nimitr, not as internal imagination, but as a vision received, a signal or apparition that enters the body and unsettles it. In this sense, the body is not a screen, but a black box: a medium through which images emerge unpredictably.

We seek new apparatuses, tools, rituals, or spaces, that resist clarity, that fracture the illusion of immediate understanding. These are not transparent media, but unstable, noisy, tropical carriers of images. We ask:

What is the ontology of projection, and what might emerge if we refuse the surface altogether?

Our methodology treats projection as ritual, atmosphere, and glitch. It embraces delay, error, and opacity over resolution. Light, shadow, and reflection are used not to clarify but to confuse and expand the field of reception. The screen is no longer flat or passive; it becomes porous, absorbing, echoing, or leaking.

Within this redefined space, nimitr becomes a method: the image arrives unexpectedly, perhaps non-human, perhaps haunted.Artists working in After Projection are invited to build or misuse tools of projection, to explore the agency of the image, not by what it shows, but by what it does. Projection becomes a medium of possession and ontological instability, resisting propaganda and spectacle through mess, mysticism, and the unknown.

July 12
10 – 16 Hours
Fofflohmarkt am Rote Insel

Selling various posters stored in Halfsister’s cellar

July 13
13 – 18 Hours

8mm draught
366 Drawings
I LOOK AND FEEL SEEN

Yedam Ann / 8mm draught / 8mm Luftzug 

Publication and object 

8mm draught / 8mm Luftzug is a publication that forms part of the artist’s archive, developed ‬through her ongoing research and artistic practice. It is a collection of writing sketches that reflect her experience of diasporic placelessness and geopsychological disorientation. The publication was created in parallel with the making of her new installation work, A building with a revolving door, but only stairs. In Half Sister‬, she will read excerpts from the publication and present a small-format object. 

Sophia Tabatadze / 366 Drawings

Drawings

Part of the 366 drawings will be shown and new website with these drawings will be presented. These drawings can be purchased or borrowed for one year

On January 1st, 2024, after a long pause Sophia Tabatadze picked up drawing again and gave herself an assignment to draw every day throughout the whole year. Luckily it was also a leap year. 

When reality gets boring go back to abstraction
when abstraction gets boring go back to reality

This text, written on the drawing from 25.07.2024 explains her drawing process.

Saša Tatić / I LOOK AND FEEL SEEN

Installation

Installed across the gallery window, this work captures a moment of self-awareness, at once intimate and collective. The phrase inscribed lingers between affirmation and longing, mirroring the gaze it receives and a surface that reflects as much as it reveals.

About the participants:

Yedam Ann is an artist based in Berlin. She challenges and deconstructs quintessential ‬design and placeness. Her artistic research frequently examines urban landscapes in the context of technology and digital environments, often addressing essentialized identities and the museumification of cities. Her interventions into social dynamics are often translated into an installative and dramaturgical practice involving spatial installations, video, and performance. 

She has presented solo exhibitions at Post Territory Ujeongguk in Seoul and the Wewerka Pavillon in Münster. Her works have been shown at KIT – Kunst im Tunnel in Düsseldorf, IMPAKT Festival in Utrecht, Ars Electronica in Linz, and Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten in Berlin. 

Sophia Tabatadze is an artist and curator. Born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgia, she lives since 2008 in Berlin. At the age of 20, she went to study in Amsterdam and obtained bachelor’s degree at the Rietveld Academy in 2002. At the age of 40, she completed a one-year course for curatorial training at CuratorLab, Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden. 

From 2022 she runs a studio and artist-run event space in Berlin called Halfsister.

Sophia has shown her work internationally, presented Georgia at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and participated in Istanbul Biennale in the same year. She also participated in Museum shows such as Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany, Tartu Museum, Estonia, Fine Arts Museum, Nantes, France; Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, the Netherlands and Tbilisi History Museum, Georgia.

Saša Tatić, a Bosnia-born artist, makes transparent the roles she carries – as a daughter, sister, heiress, and member of the Balkan diaspora – to create resonance and affinities in relationships with home and belonging communities. Text in her works, as a mediator, often carries content that offers various possibilities for identification. Whether spoken through poetry or integrated into visual forms, her everyday life, experiential encounters, and accompanying emotional states thus become the subject of the narratives. Starting from personal experience but transcending the autobiographical, her practice calls for an open dialogue by pointing to the complexity of cultural differences arising from changes in the living environment.

She is one of the co-founders of the artistic association Fully Funded Residencies e.V, advocating for equality and inclusion. She is a member of the feminist and left-oriented organization CRVENA in Sarajevo. She lives and works in Berlin and visits Bosnia whenever she can.