23/08/2026
We warmly invite you to our upcoming exhibition „Ressorts“ by Jessica Tille.
Opening: Thursday Sep. 3, 2026 | 6 - 9 pm
Running from Sep. 4 - Oct. 1, 2026
In ‘Ressorts’, the multilingual ambiguity of the term is taken as a starting point and layered upon one another. While in French it refers to a mainspring or a driving spring, the English word ‘resort’ denotes a place of rest and regeneration. In the Nexus Nails shop window, Jessica Tille explores how time and body can be interconnected, measured and reimagined through technology.
The center of the exhibition is the mainspring of mechanical watches: tightly coiled metal strips that store energy through tension and release it in a controlled manner. The spatial extent of the spring remains invisible when it’s coiled. Movement, time and distance initially exist as tension before they unfold and become spatially accessible. Even in the early days of mechanistic bodily science, the movements of organs and tissues were thought to be driven by internal ‘springs’.
Even in the early days of mechanistic bodily science, the movements of organs and tissues were thought to be driven by internal ‘springs’.
This connection between the body and technology is making a return today. In biohacking and digital self-monitoring practices, sleep, activity, heart rate and circadian rhythms are recorded, analysed and used to optimise recovery. The body is rendered legible through temporal data and, at the same time, becomes an adjustable model. This process can lead to a recreation of the body – to a second body made of data. Thus, in ‘Ressorts’, Jessica Tille situates the body within a temporality between stored movement and measurement; between exhaustion and regeneration.
Jessica Tille
Invited by Lisa Mayer & Zoé Cathérine García
The exhibition is supported by Kunst und Kulturstiftung der Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf & Kulturamt Düsseldorf
Herzliche Einladung zu unserer kommenden Ausstellung „Ressorts“ mit Jessica Tille.
Opening: 3. Sep. 2026 | 18 - 21 Uhr
Laufzeit: 4. Sep. - 1. Okt. 2026
In „Ressorts“ wird die mehrsprachige Mehrdeutigkeit des Begriffs zum Ausgangspunkt genommen und miteinander überlagert