Speculative Archival project on the Limmat Valley and the restored waterways in relation to the Hydropowerstatiton of @etharchitecturearchive Limmat, a river project across Zurich, Switzerland. Some install shots of my works in the exhibition here. "If you follow the river long enough" at Dietikon Projektraum, Haus Regina, Zentralstrasse 12, 8953 Dietikon.
A wet clap, a rippling echo, swirling, splashing, gliding - a figure that lingers in both water and land, moving in-between, safekeeping the river and calling you closer, shapeshifting, fierce, they can be one and the other. In „If you follow the river long enough“ with Dietikon Projektraum we propose to subvert the conventional narrative of the mermaid: condemned seductive and by that dangerous, mutilated for scientific endeavors, called deceptive as their appearance is not one, labeled antonym to purity and virtue, objectified and sexualized in advertisements. Following this figure gives a chance to look behind the shining curtain of power thirsting to master and possess, revealing the actors of stories and histories that shape the narrative of control over bodies, in an all-encompassing sense of the word. Featuring the work of Seba Calfuqueo, Magali Dougoud, Margaretha Jüngling, Lila-Zoé Krauß @l.twills and Sohorab Rabbey, the exhibition includes screenings, archival materials, and overviews of cultural references.
