Rosario Aninat & Simon Shim-Sutcliffe

Opening on Friday, September 1 from 6 to 9pm.
September 2 until October 14, 2023

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Bastionstr. 5
40213 Düsseldorf

Saturday 12-4pm
and by appointment

Special opening hours: Saturday, Sept 2nd from 1-7pm and Sunday, Sept 3rd from 1-5pm.

The installative practice of Rosario Aninat (*1993, Chile) and Simon Shim-Sutcliffe (*1997, Canada) creates immersive, site-specific environments that dissect elements and artifacts of the infrastructural age, recontextualize them in the exhibition space, and thus enable an introspection into the anatomy of the urban sphere. The resulting spatial assemblages inescapably confront visitors with the monumentality of the industrial, man-made landscapes that surround us and structure our movement through the world: pipelines, mega highways, canals and sewers. They reveal both, the fragility of architectural structures as well as their violent destructive power. Like time capsules, the sculptural elements - such as those borrowing their shape from car tops - conserve the perpetual movement that characterizes our time and life, allowing it to stand still for a moment.