A Question of Intervals and Scales

A Question of Intervals and Scales at SAP Space, part of the 2024 Project Space Festival Berlin, explores how shifts in scale shape the ways bodies—human and non-human—understand and relate to space, environment, and world. The exhibition approaches scale both as a material condition and as a metaphor, revealing how the micro and macro, the individual and collective, the microscopic to the planetary, are constantly intertwined.

The four participating artists—Alizée Armet, Janne Höltermann, Nadja Verena Marcin, and Sidsel Ladegaard—bring different angles through video, sculpture, installation, and performance.

Nadja Verena Marcin confronts the long-standing trope of “woman in nature” in Sissi and Eve, using her own body as sculptural and performative medium to expose the cultural projections, assumptions, and power relations embedded in its representation. Her work creates a space of resistance in which identity, power, and nature are renegotiated.

To address scale today is to engage with pressing global concerns: the destructive scale of human impact, the viral forces that reshape our bodies and politics, and the expansionist logic of scalability that underpins capitalism. But scale also brings us back to distance and time—how things shrink on the horizon, how pain softens with years, how stepping back can open space for clarity and reflection.

By staging these perspectives together, A Question of Intervals and Scales invites visitors to rethink scale not just as measure, but as a lens on life itself. And within the garden setting of SAP Space in Berlin-Neukölln, the exhibition offers a “scaled-back” place for contemplating these layered relationships—between body and world, intimacy and vastness, fragility and power.