This exhibition is the result of the two month long Centre d'Art residency program inacted by the Berlin-based artist Philipp Klinnert. It reflects the subjective experience of Auroville and its people through the artist's practice and research.The artist presents a series of multi-layered drawings that explore the complex ways in which we interpret and fill our perceptions with meaning, language, and symbols to understand ourselves and the world. Driven by improvisation and intuition, the artist captures the contradictions inherent in our experiences—how we blend memories, ideas, and future concepts with the immediacy of the present. Using a variety of pens and pencils, including half-empty ones, the process reflects the diversity and inherent lack in our individual and collective ways of existing.The work conveys the tension between our genuine, contradictory selves and the desire for a non-contradictory, desireless future. It speaks to the constant push and pull of ideology—how we both shape and are shaped by it—creating a state of perpetual uncertainty, where we seek comfort in an ever-present "big other."

Philipp Alvaro Klinnert was born in Freiburg, Germany in 1999 Because of his fathers NGO work he moved to Nicaragua in 2006, where he grew up until he was thirteen, going to a German school, getting piano lessons, drawing, and making little videos with friends. In 2013 he went back to Berlin and in 2019 he graduated at the Nelson Mandela International School (NMS). After highschool he worked as a lounge pianist in a restaurant, making music with fellow musician friends, working as a waiter, painting, writing film scripts and poetry, and performing comedy. At the age of 22 he applied to FilmArche e.V. and started studying filmmaking in Neukölln. He kept drawing and exhibited visual illustrations at the “Wedding Kunstmarkt” and the “Teltower Kunst Sonntag”, as well as private exhibitions by acquainted artists and friends. In addition, he transcribed traditional Nicaraguan folklore music to piano and performed it for the “Pan y Arte” Charity in Münster.