WET RESISTANCE

Hanna-Maria Hammari, Julian Irlinger, James Krone, Tetsumi Kudo, José Montealegre, Berenice Olmedo, Darling Lopez-Salinas, Anna Solal, Zoe Williams

14 August – 13 November 2022

The exhibition Wet Resistance begins its narration with a dystopia: in a dried-out world dominated by moisture-repelling technology and artificial intelligence, wet resistance emerges in defence of natural, humid, human qualities, and celebrates moisture as exchange, humour and life.

A large-scale installation of tiles and metal plants by José Montealegre becomes a landscape in which the works of eight international artists are embedded. Wet Resistance contrasts the wet, mossy, growing, overgrown and irrational with the dry, clean, rational, technical and broken. The human body, with its high water content, is conceived as an organism entangled with the world in which it lives and which it constantly co-creates.

For the opening we look forward to an exchange of money and fluids, sounds and drinks, during Liquid Currency, a performative installation and bar by Zoe Williams with HYDRA (Anna Gloria Flores), Katie Shannon and Susu Laroche.

Curated by José Montealegre (artist) and Rebekka Seubert

Artistic Director: Rebekka Seubert
Assistant Curator: Linda Schröer
Assistant: Steven Natusch

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