Fortunately undecided in between

The infinite simultaneity of all imaginable processes and possibilities as well as the resulting improbability of successful action has strong effects in the field of tension between activity and passivity. Waiting, watching, becoming active, saving the world, despairing, sitting around: Meanwhile is a topos from comics that breaks up the narrative and shows what heroes or villains have been busy with in the meantime. Through Markus’ selection of works, Meanwhile can also be understood as a paradigm of a relationship to the world: In the awareness of a constant simultaneity and in-betweenness, moments become expandable spaces, while moments of complentative pause can be shrunk into symbols in concrete that can be recognised, processed and understood in fractions of a second.

The gaze of the black eyes, still resting on you, epitomizes this way of thinking. The dog breathes calmly, occasionally snorts, closes its eyes, opens them. It can be characterized by both alert tension and an inattentive twilight state; the present passes by untouched until perhaps even an eruptive outburst of commitment. (…)

The dog protagonists in the exhibition Meanwhile, like Markus’ works as a whole, should fortunately be undecided. Because only through openness is it possible to give each moment the amount of attention and personal time that it deserves in individual judgment. This assessment leads to a particular reflection on one’s own time, one’s own activity and passivity. (…)

— Johannes Listewnik