Opening 23.10.2025 | 7PM | Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

Exhibition from 24.10.2025 to 14.12.2025 (open from Wednesday to Sunday 2-7PM)

In her exhibition The broom, the spoon and her shoes, at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Myriam Jacob-Allard braids cultural, personal, and film-historical references into an arresting reflection on matrilineal inheritance, transformation, and the experience of time.

The central work, Les Immortelles, is a four-part film collage combining abstract imagery and found vampire film audio. It tells of a daughter bitten by her vampire mother, symbolizing the melancholic inheritance of identity and emotional burden. Immortality here is not a gift, but a metaphor for shared solitude and the persistence of memory across generations.

In the same space, a kinetic installation features papier-mâché domestic objects—hands, boots, a broom—moving mechanically in a ghostly home-like setting. A watch-tapping hand echoes the ticking of a clock, reinforcing time’s fleeting, absurd rhythm. The exhibition contrasts the linearity of time with eternal return, absence with presence, and the lived body with its symbolic trace. Jacob-Allard links film and sculpture to reflect on repetition, inheritance, and identity.

Text of Maximilian Rauschenbach
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