All-in

MFA degree show, Work.Master, Geneva University of Art & Design (HEAD), Geneva, CH, 2019

All-in, exhibition views, 2019 ©Zoé Aubry

In a large, almost empty studio, the art work, paintings and furniture lean against the walls, backs to the audience. When the audience enters the room, a vinyl LP is playing on an old stereo. Then a list is read aloud, one item after the other.

“Painting.”
The five associates stand up and hang the paintings on the walls, making them visible to the audience; most of the paintings are from previous exhibitions.

(l. to r.) Eingang 1, 200 x 200 cm, oil on canvas and wood, 2018; Eingang 2, 90 x 18 cm, oil and spray on canvas, stretched on wood, 2018; Kunst-Halle-an-der-Saale 1, 100 x 100 cm, oil on jute, 2018; Kunst-Halle-an-der-Saale 3, 100 x 100 cm, acrylic on jute, 2018 ©Emily Bonnet

“Installation.”
Plaster sculptures, trestles, plinths and other objects are placed around the room.

All-in, installation view ©Emily Bonnet

“Painting – not on canvas.”
The sleeve of the LP being played is turned round; it is a painting made in collaboration with one of the associates.

EICA Volume 4, 32 x 32 x 2 cm (each), digital print on LP cover, 2019 ©Emily Bonnet

“Photos and videos taken in places where people live or work.”
A small black and white book with black and white photos called Klingnau is opened, then an old CRT TV is turned on, a still frame video with monotonous narration is played.

All-in, installation view ©Zoé Aubry

“Mindmaps.”
They were drawn in different cities, between 2017 and 2018, and numbered in sequence. Two of them, risograph prints, are hung in a corner.

All-in, installation view ©Emily Bonnet

“A book called Service Trois Pièces.”
A stack of fifteen handmade editions of the book is placed on a stand, underneath the two mind maps hanging in the corner.

All-in, installation view ©Zoé Aubry

“Texts typed on canvas.”
Two scrolls of typed canvas fixed to the wall, one of them painted, are unrolled.
“Performances with and/or for other people.”
A painter’s overalls, used in a group performance called Noise Action Space Agency, are hung on the wall.

“Handmade editions.” A worktop – on which lies a whole collection of micro editions, monographs, exhibition catalogues, most of which appear in the bibliography of Service Trois Pièces – is set up on the trestles.

“Texts read during performances with a typewriter.”
A ten-meter-long scroll of cloth with the entire script of the book Service Trois Pièces typed onto it is unrolled from a typewriter.

The whole exhibition was assembled in fifteen minutes – an inventory of every item is typed up on the typewriter before the discussion begins.

Written and created by Sylvain Gelewski
Performers: Gabriel Alexandrino, Romane Chabrol, Luca Kasper, David Sentkar, Antoine Siron
Soundtrack: Various Artists, EICA Volume 4, EICA Records, 2019