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Dorota Gawęda’s & Eglė Kulbokaitė’s monographic exhibition ‘Mouthless’, taking place at both Fri Art and WallRiss, Fribourg

Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė. Mouthless

Opening party: 31.01.2020
01.02 – 29.03.2020

For their first monographic exhibition in a Swiss institution, Eglė Kulbokaitė and Dorota Gawęda transform Fri Art into a place of reception sensitive to the most contemporary fears. The environment created for the exhibition is a fragmented fiction in which eco-feminism theory, urban legends, witches trials, concrete geographical landmarks and impending ecological drama are mixed. Screens, sounds, smells, light effects, objects, texts address the visitor very directly and provoke his/her reflection. Through its narratives, the exhibition problematizes the distribution of the natural and the technological, the archaic and the futuristic, the real and its mediation. The “as if”, the speculative aspect of fiction questions our relationship to the production of truth. Borrowings from the popular genres of science fiction and horror reflect the unstable condition of the bodies that are currently going through an identity and ecological crisis. The exhibition will extend beyond Fri Art exhibition rooms. A diorama installed in the WallRiss art space will be used as a location for filming and production. This location will also serve as a relay antenna for broadcasting in the city centre. The exhibition is imagined as a rumor spreading throughout the city of Fribourg.

Dorota Gawęda (*1986, Lublin / Basel) and Eglė Kulbokaitė (*1987 Kaunas / Basel) began their collaboration in 2013, with their extended serial project Young Girl Reading Group (YGRG). Under this project, they organized more than 150 reading groups and performances at a sustained pace. Over the past six years, they have produced performances and solo exhibitions in numerous places, among the most recent, Sunk into it, part of it at Futura, Prague (2019); I get those gossebumps everytime you come around at Lucas Hirsch Gallery, Düsseldorf (2018); YGRG 154X: reading with the single hand V at Cell Project Space, London (2018), and participated in group shows such as 13th Baltic Triennial, Vilnius/Riga/Tallinn (2018); the 6th Athens Biennale (2018), or the 6th Moscow Biennale for Young Art at MMOMA (2018).

Opening hours:
Monday and Tuesday: by appointment (info@fri-art.ch)
Wednesday 12 am – 6 pm
Thursday 12 am – 6 pm
Friday 12 am – 6 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 1pm – 6 pm

WallRiss [1]
Varis 10-12
CH-1700 Fribourg
info@wallriss.ch
+41 79 604 31 85

Fri Art Kunsthalle Fribourg [2]
Petites-Rames 22
Case postale 582
CH-1701 Fribourg
+41 (0)26 323 23 51
info@fri-art.ch

To go to Fri Art from WallRiss:
Take the Funiculaire [3] (close to bus stop Saint-Pierre)

With the support of:
Abteilung Kultur Basel-Stadt [4]
Ville de Fribourg [5]
Agglomération de Fribourg [6]
Canton de Fribourg [7]
Loterie Romande [8]
Pro Helvetia, Fondation suisse pour la culture [9]
Migros pour-cent culturel [10]

Thanks to:
eikon [11], anyma (Michael Egger) [12], Ferme de La Faye, Granges-Paccots [13], Fritz Schiffers, Erik Raynal, Juliette Ruetz, Julia Moritz, Juno Moritz, Azur Sabic, Amadeus Vogelsang, International Flavors and Fragrances Inc. [14], Cottweiler [15], Ninamounah [16], Mainline:RUS/Fr.CA/DE, CC-steding jewelry [17], Roni Ilan [18], Fila [19], Ocularis [20], Kara, Alexis Thiem, Andreas Wetterli

Artist Information
Dorota Gawęda [21]
Eglė Kulbokaitė [22]