Yoko Ono: heal

In coincidence with the Berlin Biennale, the galerie Davide Di Maggio presents Yoko Ono´s exhibition "heal yoko ono" in the German capital. The seminal New York-based artist, a leading figure of the FLUXUS movement and Conceptual Art, shows a series of intallations with which the public may interact. The work WE´RE ALL WATER consists of one hundred and eighteen bottles of clear glass, filled with water, each has a label with the name of a person. A small round table with chairs will be placed in the exhibition space with a single water-filled bottle without a label; here people may write a name on a card and place it near the bottle as a conceptual addition to WE´RE ALL WATER. WE`RE ALL WATER is inspired by a concept that Yoko Ono pubblished in 1967, for her exhibition at the Lisson Gallery in London:

"you are water / I´m water / we´re are all water in different containers / that´s why it´s so easy to meet / someday we´ll evaporate together / but even after the water´s gone / we´ll probably point out to the containers / and say - that´s me there, that one - / we´re container minders"

At the entrance of the gallery is a recent work titled Pieces of Sky. The installation consists of eleven german army helmets from World War II that are suspended from the ceiling; they each contain pieces of "Sky", which the public may take.

Finally a new partecipatory installation titled heal will be installed in the smaller room. Large maps of Berlin will be hung on the walls; one group of maps is from 1910, the other is contemporary. People may rubber stamp the words i love you, ich liebe dich, heal on these maps. Yoko Ono`s concept is that the streets and squares of the city are like the veins and blood vessels of the human body lying beneth - their traces have been destroyed by war and time. Through love, a healing process will take place. heal also includes Ono´s sound work RISING.

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