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Monika Emmanuelle Kazi’s work identifies and diverts elements, objects, and volumes of standardized, sometimes private spaces, to offer a critical and sensitive re-reading of their presence. Ludo game boards, places in the house containing water, the influence of domestic space on bodies, their gestures, their way of seeing and being in the world, powdered milk, monocultures, or cinder blocks that give their structure to walls and houses all become borrowed, traversed and linked material of her work.
For her exhibition at Tunnel Tunnel, Monika Emmanuelle Kazi recreates humid conditions once absorbed and remembered by the skin, this same humidity that makes the wallpaper curl around the equator and envelops our bodies. The painting-structures installed in the exhibition space are adorned with fragments of reproductions of Dutch tapestries that sometimes tend to disappear. These tapestries quote, juxtapose, and disintegrate a fantasized elsewhere – full of plants, fruits, birds, and animals that never coexisted in the same place – while telling the story of a king we can no longer identify since the only information to be found describes him as being ‘carried by two Moors’. Water thus seeps through this material and pulls the thread of a history that is also being disintegrated, eroded, and slowly eaten by humidity. On the occasion of her exhibition, Monika Emmanuelle Kazi has invited Sina Oberhänsli to install modules in which humidity becomes a fine mist of delicately superimposed objects.
Olivia Fahmy
Opening on 11.05.23 from 16:00 to 20:00
Exhibition from 11.05.23 to 17.06.23
Opening hours: Wednesday from 17:00 to 19:00, Saturday from 11:00 to 14:00
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