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In 2017, Yuya Suzuki lived in a traditional Japanese building in a small Taiwanese city. It had been built in colonial times and seemed to be a common pre-World War II era building. Suzuki was struck by how rare buildings in this style had become. In Japan, these architectures, unless counted as cultural assets, are […]
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Pachakuti time! (Surfboard) The exhibition comprises different formal researches as well as works in progress driven by the lockdown of Andrés Pereira Paz. A Pachakuti is a quechua term that implies an overturn in space and time. By taking this term as a point of departure Pereira Paz understands drawing as a surfboard navigating troubled waters in […]
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About Invisible Fear is a metaphor for the dread we feel towards death and invisible beings. We have an interest in things that cannot be seen but easily sensed. I started using the format of a will, imagining I was encountering death. The focus moves from written language to a performance. The movements themselves are recorded, […]
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Raise your vibration, tune to Love, Health and Harmony! In this special time YOU choose the vibration to tune with. The planets support this transformation. You are approaching a new era. In this month of winter solstice, a shadow corridor of two eclipses and the Great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter will happen on 21st […]
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BIG FUCK is a response to 2020. Dealing with the pandemic, Trump, an increase in racism and uprise of popularity of fascist leaders, I initially created a small scale sign, then felt compelled to make the larger one. Since the sign is an edition, a second BIG FUCK sign, pointing in the opposite direction, will […]
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On this endless ocean Watching in slow motion As you turn away and say Take my breath away Take my breath away Still anticipating love Never hesitating to become the fated ones In time you slipped away Haunted by the notion Somewhere there’s a world in flames Take my breath away Expulsions was filmed […]
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„Nothing Compares“ is an invitation to come together in a moment when forces work to tear us apart. Like a bird without a song. You better try to have fun no matter what you do. All the flowers that we planted we do not take for granted. Nothing can take away these clues, because nothing compares […]
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Ingrid Lønningdal presents two collaborations on the Open Window screen: a music video for electro musician Espen T. Hangård and documentation of the recent monograph Ingrid Lønningdal – 10. Flipping through the pages of the monograph we see images from Ingrid’s works interacting with Bethanien’s surroundings – a variety of different architectures on Kottbusser Str, […]
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Sara Issakharian’s new series of work draws on the difficulties people especially women are facing in her country of origin, Iran. Through the medium of painting and drawing, she attempts to shed some light on the many multifaceted destinies stemming from our turbulent times. By using the sometimes allegorical language of tales, she tries to depict a […]
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Night of Swords Night of Swords is an eight-hour long, one shot, single take durational performance for video. A jump-cut to an eternal combat between two lovers, a metre of the limits of ambition, a tribute to the absurdly liminal tenacity of competition. Across the 480 minutes of the video’s duration, the light shifts with the passing of […]