Lutz Bacher - Burning the Days

The exhibition title, Burning the Days, is Bacher’s own. It’s the title she gave to an unfinished book that now exists as a binder in her archive. The book is a chronological compilation of the artist’s work from 2013 until nearly the day she died in 2019. The title cites the expression used by soldiers during the Vietnam War to describe time spent off duty but still deployed: “burning the days.” The exhibition Lutz Bacher: Burning the Days, too, could be thought of as a draft, as much like the book itself, it remains unfinished or unfinishable—a recollection of the past as well as a language to come. Rather than following a chronological order, it unfolds through a series of associative encounters—reflecting Bacher’s own attitude.