ME, INC.

Juliette Bonneviot, Chloé Delarue, Aude Pariset, Marianna Simnett, Helga Wretman
Curated by Sabine Rusterholz Petko

APRIL 16 – MAY 21, 2016
Opening: Friday April 15, 6-8 pm

Helga Wretman's performance „Anti Depressive Massage for Artists“ will take place during the opening.

Aude Pariset in collaboration with Juliette Bonneviot

LS/S #24, 2015

Inkjet jet prints, archival UV varnish, adhesive film, eyelets

160 x 100 cm

It’s with great pleasure that we announce our upcoming group show curated by Sabine Rusterholz Petko entitled ME, INC with Juliette Bonneviot, Chloé Delarue, Aude Pariset, Marianna Simnett and Helga Wretman opening this Friday April 15, 2016.

Self-representation is a matter-of-fact aspect and creative obligation of life today. Images of optimization and efficiency, youth and freshness are ubiquitous, both online and offline. Eventually we embody it ourselves, commenting on it, or without any critical distance. Five young international and Swiss artists demonstrate how this game pulsates between naturalness and artificiality, but also appropriation and refusal—between the massage table and operation table, euphoria and depression, always close to hyperventilating and losing consciousness. The works are images of a society on overdrive, confronted with the contradictions of capitalism and hyper-digitization, an obsession with health but also with the ever-pressing issue of the environment. The artists Juliette Bonneviot, Chloé Delarue, Aude Pariset, Marianna Simnett, and Helga Wretman—all digital natives—deal with concepts of contemporary physicality, interweaving the slogans and images of advertising and leisure time communication, ecology, and medicine. In so doing, the bright and dark sides of our mechanisms of efficiency and self-optimization are exposed, confronting the viewer with both seemingly limitless progress as well as the potential collapse.
To read more about the artists click here.

We are looking forward to welcoming you this Friday at the gallery.

Sabina Kohler & Bettina Meier-Bickel

Rotwand
Sabina Kohler & Bettina Meier-Bickel
Lutherstrasse 34
CH-8004 Zürich
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http://www.rotwandgallery.com/
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UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Laure Marville
May 28 – July 9, 2016
Opening: May 27, 6-8 pm

William Hunt
Special project
May 28 – August 13, 2016
Opening: May 27, 6-8 pm

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