The Exhibition
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An exhibition by Mel e Logan with artists and collaborators:Jana Saleh, Sonja Bäumel, Julie Jebeile, Lisa Walker, Charlotte Jarvis, Monica C. LoCascio, Barbis Ruder, Bela Borsodi, Tracy Thompson, Sei Jeung, Martina R. Fröschl, Victoria Keddie, Sofia Gutierrez Escobar, Flynn by Malpractice (Chiara Kristler & Marcin Ratajcyk), Aeon Gawa (Hartwin Haselbauer) with Otto Rotermundt, MAX HYPER, Margherita Pruneti, Brii Power and tin.hoc, Noor Stenfert Kroese and Amir Bastan, Tracy Emin
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Many worlds and works interacting: the pieces are drawings, paintings, video projection, and interactive sound sculptures the visitors activate by way of antennas, theremin-like sound players. The exhibition’s landscapes and smoky worlds are derived from a very deep dive into body liquids and audio activation, which, in our daily lives, are hidden from sight. As gut bacteria become fantasy birds, Demodex, the microscopic parasites, take on a humanoid depiction and wear jewelry. Why not? After all, it is common knowledge that bacteria are polite and social beings. A non-cooperative bacterium gets the ‘cold shoulder’, a statement by scientists studying bacterial interactions. They have come to the conclusion that resource sharing and group work are more ancient than human existence. Marchantia, the plant which is being looked at as the plant which bridges aquatic life to land colonization of first life forms, appears in thick oil paintings, a portrait of ancestry. Logan gathers collaborations and sketches of Chimera and expanded life, recent sound recordings and early collaborations, gathered and blended in an art-science world connected to the ‚Salon’ and the tradition of the early twentieth century artistic activities influenced by scientific exploration. Inter Acting Buggy Worlds finds activation in the fantastic and lets the science catch up.
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Opening