APROPOSITIONS ( and APROPOSITIONS ( (LIVE)
Kunsthaus (Zurich, CH)2024
In the context of the group exhibition Apropos Hodler with:
Asim Abdulaziz, Laura Aguilar, Caroline Bachmann, Sabian Baumann, Denise Bertschi, Ishita Chakraborty, Andriu Deplazes, Latifa Echakhch, Eva Egermann & Cordula Thym, Marianne Flotron, Dani Gal, María Elena González, Hemauer/Keller, David Hockney, Sasha Huber, Roland Iselin, Frantiček Klossner, Nils Amadeus Lange, Izidora I LETHE, Urs Lüthi, André M’Bon, Uriel Orlow, Nicolas Party, RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co), Ugo Rondinone, Susan Schuppli, Selma Selman, Milva Stutz, Latefa Wiersch
As part of the APROPOS HODLER exhibition at Kunsthaus Zurich, LETHE has continued to delve into the question regarding notions of “neutrality" or "natruality" of a (national) landscape and its bodies.
Instead, LETHE tackles the notion of such through site, architectural histories, and engages with its hidden and ever-present and complexities and embedded strata of (em)power(ment).
APROPOSITIONS ( (live) is a one-time only live-performance without video-recordings. The seven performers wear a specially designed fabric that quotes a deer-unter’s camouflage “orange blaze” . The textiles are altered to depict invasive and now “Swiss” plants, printed on canvas, with a color gradiation from a white that looks as if bleached from below to a mid-day/mid-night orange on top.
The performers move throughout five different locations in the (recently built by Chipperfield and historic by Moser) architectures of the museum, guiding the viewers through a score of possible interventions into complex histories and presents such as:
DIS_PLACE
RE_APPEAR
UN_QUOTE
DE_POSITION
GATHER
UN_RELATE
DISPERSE
Izidora l LETHE
Camera
Leonia Brenner
Meret Bhend
Silvan Hillmann
Costume
Ana Toni Vyshyakova
Photo Credits
Studio Stucky
Urs Westerman, Courstesy Zurich Art Weekend
Giuliana Beya Dridi
Donya Speaks
Hermes Schneider
LEN_
Nayo Sauter
Remo Asphalt
Sharon