2008 MESSAGE SALON
Installation views, Everything that Begins as Comedy Inevitably Ends as Mystery
Solo show, Message Salon @Perla Mode, Zürich
August 27 – September 24 , 2008
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Three different yet interrelated projects are exhibited at message salon, they intend to create a situation, a sort of portal into formal jokes contaminated with psychedelic and political imaginary. Weaving and clashing different examples of culture the pieces aimed to leave the public in a strange in-between moment. Each work became a bridge with the other works and also a bridge between the exhibition and its context.
This exhibition was then a personal response to the characteristics of Perla Mode, the works were adapted and modified from my original plan. Besides the art world and the general public, I had to consider that the exhibition space was located in the red light district of Zürich. My vision of the unknown (as a mental space) and the nostalgic (as history) clashed with the reality outside the windows; and this clash would hopefully produce a distance, with specific energy, something to think about.
The title of this exhibition is the final phrase of a chapter of The Savage Detectives, a novel by writer Roberto Bolaño.
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