On Hospitality (i.e. Exclusion)
2010Steel, crane, volcanic stones (detail)
Installation view: On Hospitality, 3 July - 28 August 2010,
Labor, Mexico
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On Hospitality (i.e. Exclusion)
2010Steel, crane, volcanic stones (detail)
Installation view: On Hospitality, 3 July - 28 August 2010,
Labor, Mexico
© Sies + Höke 2012
On Hospitality (i.e. Exclusion)
2010Steel, crane, volcanic stones (detail)
Installation view: On Hospitality, 3 July - 28 August 2010,
Labor, Mexico
© Sies + Höke 2012
On Hospitality (i.e. Exclusion) and On Hospitality (The Cave of Polyphemus or The Invention of Misunderstandings)
2010Steel, crane, volcanic stones (detail)
16mm film, 23'' loop
Installation view: On Hospitality, 3 July - 28 August 2010,
Labor, Mexico
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On Hospitality (Elements of Balance)
20107 photographs, 40 x 50 cm each, on shelf
Installation view: On Hospitality, 3 July - 28 August 2010,
Labor, Mexico
With Alexandre Guirkinger
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Les Coloristes Coloriées (The colored colorists)
2008 – 2009
Silkscreen and acrylic paint on canvas
150 x 110 cm (Les Coloristes Coloriées I)
88 x 110 cm and 130 x 110 cm (Les Coloristes Coloriées II)
105 x 110 cm (Les Coloristes Coloriées III)
A series of photographs of film colorization workshops from 1905-1925 have been silkscreened on canvas. The faces and hands of the colorists have been colored with acrylic paint.
Installation view: Color Suite, 2009, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2008 – 2009
Silkscreen and acrylic paint on canvas
150 x 110 cm (Les Coloristes Coloriées I)
88 x 110 cm and 130 x 110 cm (Les Coloristes Coloriées II)
105 x 110 cm (Les Coloristes Coloriées III)
A series of photographs of film colorization workshops from 1905-1925 have been silkscreened on canvas. The faces and hands of the colorists have been colored with acrylic paint.
Installation view: Color Suite, 2009, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
© Sies + Höke 2012
The Sirens' Stage (The Reef)
2010plinths, actors, nude models, writers, A4 tapuscript, various dimensions
Exhibition view The Sirens' Stage, David Roberts Art
Foundation, London, March-April 2010
Photo: Tomas Rydin / This is Tomorrow
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L'Electricité, Exclusion de la tautologie #2, (The electricity, exclusion of tautology # 2)
2007Restored aluminium lamp
Approx. height 100 cm
A lamp lights up its own socket. From a series of tautologies that either exclude themselves from the realm of tautologies or are, as tautologies, excluded from the world. Exhibition view, The Obstacle is Tautology, May - June 2009, Tulips & Roses, Vilnius, Lithuania
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Les Larmes, Exclusion de la Tautologie #7
2008(The tears,
exclusion of tautology # 7), 2008
Artificial tears
15 x 15 x 15 cm / 6 x 6 x 6 in
A bottle of artificial tears. From a series of tautologies that ither exclude themselves from the realm of tautologies or are, as tautologies, excluded from the world.
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© Sies + Höke 2012