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Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz present their new exhibition Fog Is My Drug at Nest in Laak, exploring the tension between visibility and invisibility. They embrace Édouard Glissant’s concept of the “right to opacity”, linking it to (queer) nightlife and the “abstract club”, connecting to the neighbouring club Laak.
In the video installation in the exhibition, El Cristal Es Mi Piel, musician Aérea Negrot performs a song, co-written with the artists, that gives voice to Madrid’s Palacio de Cristal and its colonial past. Built in 1887 for the colonial Exposición de las Filipinas, the palace’s transparent architecture symbolises a colonial gaze aiming to observe and control. Boudry and Lorenz question how the building can confront this history, imagining it as a “ghost” seeking revenge – cracking, leaking, and letting nature in. Using mirrored stages, they offer new perspectives, while smoke gradually obscures the palace’s transparency, challenging...More
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Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz present their new exhibition Fog Is My Drug at Nest in Laak, exploring the tension between visibility and invisibility. They embrace Édouard Glissant’s concept of the “right to opacity”, linking it to (queer) nightlife and the “abstract club”, connecting to the neighbouring club Laak.
In the video installation in the exhibition, El Cristal Es Mi Piel, musician Aérea Negrot performs a song, co-written with the artists, that gives voice to Madrid’s Palacio de Cristal and its colonial past. Built in 1887 for the colonial Exposición de las Filipinas, the palace’s transparent architecture symbolises a colonial gaze aiming to observe and control. Boudry and Lorenz question how the building can confront this history, imagining it as a “ghost” seeking revenge – cracking, leaking, and letting nature in. Using mirrored stages, they offer new perspectives, while smoke gradually obscures the palace’s transparency, challenging...More
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