#fluidstate #crystalcondition
Jacob Dwyer, Matthias Gabi
Maxime Guyon, Timmy van Zoelen

23.01.–05.03.2016
Opening, Friday 22 January 2016, 18–20 h

Jacob Dwyer (UK), Matthias Gabi (CH)
Maxime Guyon (F), Timmy van Zoelen (NL)
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#fluidstate #crystalcondition 2016
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#fluidstate #crystalcondition 2016
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#fluidstate #crystalcondition 2016
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Timmy Van Zoelen – Teerling (Goblinisms and other Gnomes and Ungnomes) 2015
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Timmy van Zoelen – Liquefied Logo (Sprite) 2016
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Maxime Guyon – Technological Exaptations 2015
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#fluidstate #crystalcondition 2016
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Jacob Dwyer – Donovan Garcia 2016
full HD video, exhibition view
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Jacob Dwyer – Paulalien Knows Best 2015/16
sound installation, exhibition view
…a de-material space a shifting condition, one of constant flux and transformation. […] both electric and organic, a place where the individual is both everywhere and nowhere…
out of Doug Aitken, A–Z Book (Fractals)

@jacobdwyer #outsider #interaction #mobilisation #audience #paulalienknowsbest #2015 #sitespecific #audiopiece #character #nocoincidence #sense #senseless #banal #control #language #investigation #pitfall #deadcactus #stainedmattress #internetaccess
#airfromayawn #porn #bite #sweetfeetfromsanchez
#cornerofathing #saunamembership #afk @afk020


Jacob Dwyer (UK), born in London in 1988, studied fine art at Newcastle University. He holds an MA in Experimental Film from Kingston University, London. He has spent two years as an artist-in-residence at De Ateliers, Amsterdam. In 2015 he received the Kino der Kunst Project Award in Munich, DE. Selected screenings and exhibitions: 2016 Balls Deep in Fuckery, with Mike Pratt, C+H Art Space, Amsterdam NL; 2015 Kino der Kunst, Munich DE; The people of Porcupine, C+H Art Space, Amsterdam NL; Making Sense, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam NL; 2014 Villa Romana, Florence IT; Candy Colored Clown, Herrmann Germann Contemporary, Zurich CH; The Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle UK; 2013 Mauve, Vienna AT; ASC Studios, London UK; Invasion Etiquette, Herrmann Germann Contemporary, Zurich CH; 2012 Mode Istanbul TR; British Film Institute Southband London UK. He lives and works in Amsterdam NL. Paulalien Knows Best was supported by the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK).


@matthiasgabi #photography #medium #popularity #spreading #powerofimages #everydaylife #unfiltered #reproduction #process #influence #perception #beauty #face #look #hand #gesture #backlight #format #advertising #billboard #screen #copy #repetition #archive #presence #imagesasnomads #intermediality #hansbelting #ubiquity #afterart

Matthias Gabi (CH), born in Bern CH in 1981, studied Photography at Zurich University of the Arts. He holds an MA in Fine Arts from ECAL, Lausanne CH. 2006 exchange student at Thomas Ruff class Kunstakademie Düsseldorf DE. In 2014 he received a scholarship from the City of Zurich and in 2015 the Vordemberge-Gildewart Stipendium. Selected exhibitions and lecture performances: 2016 Arizona Highways, Kulturraum am Klosterplatz, St. Gallen CH; 2015 Recommended by, easy!upstream, Munich DE; Rule of three, Villa Renata, Basel CH; The Museum of the Unwanted, Kunstmuseum Olten CH; Scarlett Johannson, 8. Salon, Hamburg DE; Frame, Coalmine, Winterthur CH; Supertrumpf, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo NO; Unendliche Bibliothek, Gebert Stiftung für Kultur, Alte Fabrik, Rapperswil CH; 2014 Toute la Forêt, apes&castles, Brussels BE; Objet, Milieu Bern CH; Surfaces – Neue Fotografie aus der Schweiz, Fotomuseum Winterthur CH; 2013 Die Maschinen, Alabama.Sir, Leipzig DE; Flowers for your Wedding Day, Past Vyner Street, London UK. He lives and works in Zurich CH.
@maximeguyon #photography #digital #web #technologicalexaptation #series #object #goods #industry #design #perception #hyperaesthetics #carindustry #toothbrush #exaptation #ubiquity #hypercommercialism #environment #standardizedcommodities #ergonomics #symbiotics #consumptionculture #functionless #vestigial #contingency #cobotics #immortalorganism #technoeconomical

Maxime Guyon (F), born in Evian-les-Bains in 1990, studied photography at ECAL. He holds a BA in Visual Communication/Photography. Selected exhibitions: 2015 Hybridations, Thêatre de Vidy, Lausanne CH; 2014 Blog Reblog, Austin Center for Photography, Austin USA; 23 pineapples, the portrait society gallery, Milwaukee USA; 2013 89+SPBH, Serpentine Galleries, London UK; Wish you were here, Pop up gallery, Los Angeles USA. He lives and works between Paris F and Lausanne CH.


@timmyvanzoelen #relation #image #audio #film #photography #sculpture #cgi #video #teerling #volleyball #gottfriedbenn #cocaine #ongoing #sprite #liquify #obeyyourthirst #ilikethespriteinyou #imageisnothingtasteiseverything #stickerkoning #60fps #cavitydetective #mondriaanfund

Timmy van Zoelen (NL) born in Ijsselstein NL in 1982, studied fine art at The Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and holds a MFA from Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. He completed a two year residency at De Ateliers in Amsterdam in 2013. Selected exhibitions: 2016 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam NL (upcoming); 2015 Painting Goblin, duo-presentation with Astrid Mingels, B32, Maastricht NL; 2014 solo-presentation Astroturfer at Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam NL. He lives and works between Rotterdam NL and Brussels B.


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