CONFORT MENTAL / Paris 2022
GROUP SHOW
Jari Genser / Alja Piry / Georg Pinteritsch / Samira Saidi / Peter Schreiner The exhibition project Through The Spectacle brings together five artistic positions that could not be more different. What unites them is that their creators met as „Artists in Residence“ in 2021 at the Cite international des Arts Paris. The decision to show the works created on site in a group pushes the artists’ positions, which are located between painting, experimental text work, photography and new media, into a close relationship, which – despite their common genesis – they do not actually have. And yet, connections inevitably arise. While Jari Genser’s paintings deals with his living and work space in Paris, Samira Saidi makes historical works of art the starting point for her exploration and reinterpretation of Afro-European pioneer women of the 18th and 19th centuries. In her video work, Alja Piry places the colloquial term „Unkraut“ (weed) in a specific literary context, and Georg Pinteritsch brings abstract bodies and objects into a strange relationship of tension with their distorted surroundings. As his images refer to alchemical representations suggesting a hidden order of things, Peter Schreiner makes use of the rules of a well-known game of skill to create a random portrait of the city of Paris.
Photos: Peter Schreiner
