Richard Ojijo & Marcel Odenbach

Issued to accompany a large Marcel Odenbach retrospective in Düsseldorf’s K21 Museum, MO_RO_20 holds eight pieces from Ojija and Odenbach’s work together, each subtly rearranged and remixed for purpose. Severed from the celluloid, they play out a suggestive narrative that could go any way depending the user, playing with a sublime tension in the greyscale drift of its opener, and convecting beautifully noirish feels with ‘In stillen Teichen lauern Krokodile’ that recall Cut Hands’ atmospheric work, with a sure standout in the claggy tone of centrepiece ‘Beweis zu Nichts’, which sounds like a knackered Biosphere, and a deliciously groggy number ‘Wer leidet der schneidet’.