Malmö Art Academy alumni Tringa Gashi with a new vernissage together with Spanish artist Mercedes Pimiento called BITTER PEACH NO STOP. The vernissage opens at 6pm on Friday 23 August, at Fuxia 2.
Opening
23 August 6PM, Industrigatan 17B, Malmö.
Exhibition period
23 August - 19 October
About the exhibition
Gel nails. A row of watches locked in behind the glass of a counter. Nostrils searching for the right scent. Someone is wearing a fur coat. Despite the blurriness and the shaking, we manage to distinguish a recognizable scene: we are in a shopping mall. Now, inside an elevator. Two floors up. And just when we thought we had found our feet, the camera spins again. An unstoppable loop.
In the early 1970s, immersed in a context marked by political violence and social unrest, the Florentine design collective Archizoom Associati developed the No-Stop City project. Affiliated with the so-called Radical Architecture movement, Archizoom proposed a model for a neovanguardist metropolis which, devoid of ideological prejudices, juxtaposed seemingly contradictory elements: communism and consumerism, Marxist principles and pop art. If the working class was to take absolute control of society from within, then the city had to expand as an unlimited concave space, rejecting the functionalism of rationalist architecture. No-Stop City is thus conceived as a homogeneous and modular extension, where the distinction between the factory, the places of leisure and consumption, and the home is erased. Ultimately, Arquizoom imagines a nomadic way of life with no room for privacy.
BITTER PEACH NO STOP is co-curated by Blanca del Río, independent curator and exhibition coordinator at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona.
The project is supported by Malmö Stad, Region Skåne and Kulturrådet.