Galerie-P6-Berlin is pleased to present ‘Blood Runs Cold’, a solo exhibition of photographic prints by artist Liz Rosenfeld, on view from 14.03.25 - 31.05.25 online via the Galerie-P6-Berlin profile on Artsy:

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In a series of large and medium-scale digital prints, Rosenfeld works with the material of their blood, inviting the viewer into their inner biological realm through the lens of a microscope. The artist photographed samples of their own blood, digitizing and transposing these images to large-scale prints. In some works, the images are layered over hand-drawn irregular holes, a technique the artist employs to signal a dedication to their body as an ongoing collaborative material across all mediums.

Bodies are presented as implicated and sharing responsibility in the shifting of time and space. The title “Blood Runs Cold” refers to the specific geo-political period in which Rosenfeld has created these works, drawing on the privilege they have to examine their own blood with autonomy, turning it into a self-directed material. While this blood, when analyzed, would read as chronically ill and that of a transsexual being though traces of hormones, amongst other medicalized diagnoses, zoomed in, one could begin to dream of world-making in a black hole abyss, time travel, and planetary states beyond a human body defined by systemically defined pathologies and representational identities.

Liz Rosenfeld is a Berlin-based visual and performance artist who works in film/video, performance, and experimental writing practice. Liz addresses the sustainability of emotional and political ecologies, cruising methodologies, and past and future histories regarding the ways in which memory is queered. Liz's work deals with flesh as a non-binary collaborative material, specifically focussing on the potentiality of physical abundance and excess, approaching questions regarding the responsibility and privilege of taking up space. Embracing an auto-theoretical style, Liz's writing is rooted in questions that contend with how queer ontologies are grounded in variant hypocritical desire(s.)

Liz’s films, performances, and artwork have shown in international museums and venues including The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, The Forum Expanded Program of the 2022 Berlinale, Antifestval, Bärenzwinger Berlin, Mousonturm, Tanzhaus nrw, Kampnagel, 2019 Bergen Assembly,Berlinischer Galerie, Mapa Teatro, Sophiensæle, The Hebbel am Ufer Theatre, The Gorki Theater, Arts Admin, Galerie Emanuel Layr, The Tate Modern, The Hammer Museum, The Leslie Lohman Museum, The Barbican Centre, The CAC- Glasgow, Tramway, The Stedelijk Museum, The C/O Gallery, and The Deutsches Historisches Museum.

IMAGES - TOP: Blood Runs Cold #2, giclée print on archival paper, 118.9 cm × 84.1 cm, 2024, BOTTOM LEFT: Blood Runs Cold #4, giclée print on archival paper, 118.9 cm × 84.1 cm, 2024, BOTTOM RIGHT: Blood Runs Cold #3, giclée print on archival paper, 118.9 cm × 84.1 cm, 2024