Text: Giulio Squillacciotti - What Has Left Since We Left?

Giulio Squillacciotti What Has Left Since we Left? Text contribution for a solo exhibition at Care of, C/O, Milan Curated by Marta Cereda Published by Nero Editions, Milan

Text: Arbeid Adelt at Waldburger Wouters

Exhibition text written for: Arbeid Adelt 12 December 2020 - 13 February 2021 With Anastasia Bay Claudio Coltorti Mark Dion Jot Fau Gerard Herman Constant Permeke Yann Nirvana Yoy Boulevard d'Anvers 49 1000 Brussels, Belgium

Hynek Alt: Infrastructures & The Beach

Edited by: Jen Kratochvil Texts by: Àngels Díaz Miralda Tena, Jussi Parikka, Gianfranco Sanguinetti, Jen Kratochvil Published by the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the AMU Press NAMU - Nakladatelství Akademie múzických umění v Praze in 2020 with support of Lucie Drdova Gallery, Prague Lucie Drdova Gallery Design and Layout: Štěpán Marko Printed by Tiskárna Helbich, Brno Helbich Tiskárna a.s. Praha 2020

Swimming Pool - Troubled Waters

We are all familiar with that languorous, light, sun-drenched feeling when the water glistens around our feet in a deep blue pool … We are all familiar with it? The exhibition Swimming Pool – Troubled Waters is about clichéd images and exclusion, drawing on a multitude of associations around the “swimming pool” theme, and the diverse and lasting experiences of cloudiness affecting water and our relationships with it. In this way, the exhibition focuses on vital discussion about class barriers and mechanisms of exclusion in Europe and globally–caused by current migratory movements, among other things. References from film history, current artistic works, and an open exhibition architecture dedicated to research, developed in collaboration with the C& Center of Unfinished Business, attempt to sound out the gradual infiltration of the issues of inclusion and exclusion into the awareness of the affluent society. The starting point of the exhibition is the film remake A Bigger Splash from 2015, which derives from the classic The Swimming Pool (La Piscine) by Jacques Deray. Luca Guadagnino has created a veritable anti-film, brushing its sensually elegant predecessor from 1969 against the grain. While The Swimming Pool touches only marginally on fields of social conflict, fugitives are casually faded into the background of A Bigger Splash and fatally woven into the plot at the end: when the film deals with the crucial question of who should be blamed for a murder in the pool, the protagonists agree to hold immigrants responsible for the crime. The title of the film alludes to David Hockney’s A Bigger Splash from 1967. This iconic depiction of hedonistic, Californian joie de vivre is contrasted here with awareness of acute water shortages and water pollution. In the exhibition, the waters of the swimming pool–as a carefree sign of prosperity and the corresponding clichés and ideals–are permanently clouded. A catalogue will be published for the exhibition, including contributions by Andrew Berardini, Övül Ö. Durmusoglu, Gustav Elgin, Maaike Gouwenberg, Gudny Gudmundsdóttir, Nele Heinevetter (TROPEZ), John Holten, Linda Jalloh, Àngels Miralda, Mearg Negusse, Bert Rebhandl, Vanina Saracino, Valeria Schulte-Fischedick, Olaf Stüber and Carola Uehlken. For further information please send an email to: presse@bethanien.de.

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May 19th 2020 - Aug 16th 2020

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