Gina Proenza

L'ami naturel
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One looks down at the brick floor and sees a dark rectangular hole that leads to the floor below. As steps go down, we follow. Our feet cling to the staircase, our hands to the ledge; we are at the limit between the solid ground and the void, we descend by glancing at obscurity. Suddenly, the light turns on and we identify a bathroom defined by a shower – a washroom space – and a toilet – a political space.

We sit on the throne and our thoughts drift to the observation of our mind and a pile of books that suffers from humidity despite its status of advisor to the King. Time skips, shoots out water, and brings us out of our hole. We go back up the stairs, proud of our low-level politics. We strut, believing ourselves to be roosters while the kitchen lowly observes this head which floats in the middle of the ground while waddling.

A spiraling staircase towers over us, we regain control by clinging onto the ledge, we go up: bathroom, kitchen, and finally the Room. The third floor is clear, fogless, good weather awaits us.

This room has four windows they allow us to breathe, finally. Sea view, like at Beau Rivage; street view, we are at Continental; parking view, we leave in Formula 1; company view, we are d’Accord

Gina Proenza (1994) is a graduate of ECAL and founder of the independent space Pazioli. She is the winner of the Helvetia prize awarded on the occasion of the exhibition Plattform 18 held last January at the Kunsthalle Langenthal. She lives and works between Lausanne and Paris.

L'ami naturel image
L’ami naturel © Mathilda Olmi
L'ami naturel image
L’ami naturel © Mathilda Olmi
L'ami naturel image
L’ami naturel © Mathilda Olmi