“once in a hundred years” brings together works by Sid Iandovka and Anya Tsyrlina with that of Leslie Thornton and Thomas Zummer. Iandovka and Tsyrlina embrace and dismantle technologies and form in a peculiar meditation on the ridiculous and the sublime loitering in the dark corners of consciousness, memory, history and humanity. Thornton is a distinguished and renowned pioneer of media as contemporary art form. Zummer is a conceptual/materialist artist and his unusual skills as a photo-realist draftsman are often a subterfuge for the practice of philosophy through acts of image making.
The exhibition features historical and new works—including a collaborative video by Iandovka and Thornton (twin of earth, 2024)—which explore, among other things, the affinities the artists have sensed in each other’s work from the beginning of their recent encounter. once in a hundred years orbits around a new eponymous media work by Iandovka and Tsyrlina—a bold experiment in slow flow that allows the work to create itself on its own terms, unsteady and strange, untethered to familiar orders of mediated perception.
With an instability disguised as a story, “once in a hundred years” conjures a reimagined post-punk tale, a “story-space” in which narrative form breaks into ephemeral songs, a eulogy for the living present, a roll call in an eerie wasteland.
A combined exhibition between Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and Lumiar Cité, Lisbon once in a hundred years also engages with the historical and architectural differences between these two institutions.
Participating artists:
Sid Iandovka, Anya Tsyrlina, Leslie Thornton, and Thomas Zummer
at Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
until July 28, 2024