Schüttelreime
10 May – 28 June 2008
Opening preview Saturday 10 May at 16.00
Becky Beasley (UK, 1975), lives and works in Berlin
David Hominal (CH, 1976), lives and works in Lausanne
Gabriel Kuri (MX, 1970), lives and works in Brussels
Ataru Sato (JP, 1986), lives and works in Kyoto
Alan Stanners (UK, 1985), lives and works in Berlin
Jakub Julian Ziolkowski (PL, 1980), lives and works in Krakow
Schüttelreime or shake-up rhymes, as a literary genre, are characterized by the manifold application of the same material with a very peculiar modification.
The exhibition features a topography of "horror vacui" and of claustrophobia among others, and attempts to map their relation to associative reasoning. The exhibition's strategy will be inclusive, dealing simultaneously with the rigidity of minimalism, and with the indiscipline of automatist drawing and writing principles, in order to fill the distance between the sublime and the irrational with more subversive, visual strategies. The exhibition's mental horizon will be an investigation into representations of desire, pleasures, death and anxiety.