Circuit City Showroom
September 29 - October 29, 2023
Chiritiane Blattmann, Kira Scerbin,
MRZB, Shade Théret, Temra Pavlovic
The opening was marked by a performance
by Shade Théret
Curated by Filippo Tocchi, Lynn Suemitsu, MRZB
Circuit City Showroom. Installation view (2023), GDL525. Photo: MRZB. [An installation view shows the living room of GDL525. In the middle of the photograph two sculptures by Christiane Blattmann. A black-leather two seaters square couch, a painting by Kira Scerbin. On the right a television installed on a white stand, functioning as a display for MRZB video-work]
Kira Scerbin, My Bird, 2023. GDL525. Photo: MRZB. [A photograph of a painting by Kira Scerbin, portaying a white bird-like moon on a dark background, flying towards the viewer]
Circuit City Showroom. Installation view (2023), GDL525. Photo: MRZB. [An installation view shows the living room of GDL525. On the right, a piece by Temra Pavlovic: printed on photographic paper different abstract patterns intwertwine each others on a vertical scroll. On the floor a cello-case, remains of Shade Théret‘s perfomance. The outside of the building’s concrete repetitive modules shows in the daylight through the glass wall.
Shade Théret, I’M GOING TO SLASH IT / JE VAIS LE DÉCHIRER, perfomance, 2023. GDL525. Video: Tomasz Skibici. [3 Stills from a video of Shade Théret‘s perfomance, I’M GOING TO SLASH IT / JE VAIS LE DÉCHIRER, a domestic staging in a two part dance performance of a series of movements and choreographic patterns from the ouvre of the choreograper and artist. Sound, costume and styling by Shade as well as prompt outsourced under Shade’s direction]
Christiane Blattmann, Rest in the Furrows of my Skin, 2017. GDL525. Photo: MRZB. [ A photograph of a sculpture by Christiane Blattmann: two elongated vertical sculpture resembling boots illuminated from the top, doubled in their own shadows]
Temra Pavlovic, OTOTOTOI POPOI DA. 2023. GDL525. Photo: MRZB. [[A vertical photostrip with four visual dimensions: a section of scattered small white spheres photographed in black space, transitioning into diffuse light with white stains smeared downwards, breaking into high-contrast abstract textures from digitally ruptured scans of a fractured glass figurine, concluding with a vertically divided azure grid containing a pattern of circular voids]
Temra Pavlovic, OTOTOTOI POPOI DA. 2023. GDL525. Photo: MRZB. [Detail of Temra Pavlovic work, OTOTOTOI POPOI DA: the photograph zooms in a detail of Temra’s work, framing a grid-like repetitive pattern, consumed by macroscopic digital and material photographic processes]
Temra Pavlovic, OTOTOTOI POPOI DA. 2023. GDL525. Photo: MRZB. [[A vertical photostrip with four visual dimensions: a section of scattered small white spheres photographed in black space, transitioning into diffuse light with white stains smeared downwards, breaking into high-contrast abstract textures from digitally ruptured scans of a fractured glass figurine, concluding with a vertically divided azure grid containing a pattern of circular voids]
Temra Pavlovic, OTOTOTOI POPOI DA. 2023. GDL525. Photo: MRZB. [Detail of Temra Pavlovic work, OTOTOTOI POPOI DA: the photograph zooms in a detail of Temra’s work, framing a grid-like repetitive pattern, consumed by macroscopic digital and material photographic processes]
Circuit City Showroom. Installation view (2023), GDL525. Photo: MRZB. [On the left on a LCD screen installed on a white elongated Ikea display furnitue, a still of MRZB videowork Le Derive di Kaspar. On the right, the case of a cello used a prompt for Shade Théret performance. The background of the picture frames the kitchen counter and the arch above it, marking the building’s structuralist repetitive module]
MRZB, Le Derive di Kaspar (2023), GDL525. Photo: MRZB. [The photograph frames shows an LCD screen with a frame of MRZB videowork Le Derive di Kaspar: the camera in the picture shots a mannequin in an elevator, illuminated by a grid of lights reflected
on the glossy metal elevator’s wall]