ThisWeekendRoom represents Lucas Kaiser(b.1994), a young artist based in Leipzig, Germany. Lucas mainly uses pencils to form multiple layers on flat paper. The theme throughout his work is uncanny situations that emerge from everyday life, and he practices this strategy through the contradiction between image and content. The shades and colors embodied over a long time simultaneously create a cheerful and bizarre atmosphere. The myriad trajectories on the screen reflect the artist’s tenacious working attitude. The exhibition’s title, “Down at the Green Meadow”, is one of the old German folk songs with repetitive verses. For instance, verse such as “Bough on the branch, branch on the tree, tree in the meadow” goes after “Branch on the tree, tree in the meadow”. The contents of this song, like any oral folk tale and fairy tale, can be revised depending on the age or taste of the listener. It might evoke an ambivalent sentiment between familiarity and antipathy when facing the unfamiliar lyrics while humming the melody. In that sense, the exhibition is like a nursery rhyme full of tricks sung by the artist. The small gaps in the meanings of puns are the material that can most effectively show the world he is fascinated by and a mechanism to summon imaginary scenes that deviate from reality. The labor-intensive working process through pencils is the most comfortable way for the artist. The manner of drawing is a solution to control the images he creates delicately. The layers of
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