Quimeras
Laurence and Friends•Feb 02, 2022 — Apr 04, 2022
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Mythological creatures, chimeras are the composite symbol of all our unfulfilled wishes. Volatile, elusive, they seize our thoughts and turn them into unexpected reveries. These haunting ghosts grant our concerns the status of imaginary friends both intrusive as well as enveloping. They load the objects around us with the weight of real and fantasized memories, activating the personifying power of a possible interlocutor.
For his solo presentation at Laurence and Friends, in Geneva, Paulo Wirz invests the exhibition space with two site-specific interventions, altering the architectural perception and temporality of the space. „Auto-Retrato“ (Self-Portrait) is composed as an abstract painting, a complex outcome punctuated by the simplicity of its form, where the biggest window of the exhibition space loses its function of openness and expansion. If ivy knows how to impose its own rules, it is perhaps the attempt to arrange it that reveals t…
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Quimeras
Laurence and Friends•Feb 02, 2022 — Apr 04, 2022
Press Release
Mythological creatures, chimeras are the composite symbol of all our unfulfilled wishes. Volatile, elusive, they seize our thoughts and turn them into unexpected reveries. These haunting ghosts grant our concerns the status of imaginary friends both intrusive as well as enveloping. They load the objects around us with the weight of real and fantasized memories, activating the personifying power of a possible interlocutor.
For his solo presentation at Laurence and Friends, in Geneva, Paulo Wirz invests the exhibition space with two site-specific interventions, altering the architectural perception and temporality of the space. „Auto-Retrato“ (Self-Portrait) is composed as an abstract painting, a complex outcome punctuated by the simplicity of its form, where the biggest window of the exhibition space loses its function of openness and expansion. If ivy knows how to impose its own rules, it is perhaps the attempt to arrange it that reveals t…
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