Don't fuck with the user

Opening
Fr 25. Juni 2021 19.00h

Exhibition
25.06 - 08.08.2021

Feeling flooded, feeling deflated.
Whereas many feel deflated to a point where they can feel free again.

It's just like to get an invitation to go to another world.

Famously you feel helpless! You can't trust yourself yet... This then feels good again to be honest once and for all and you're like, "what the hell is wrong with me, you know!?" Well anyway you are a in the world and the world

It is all right because it is all right because it is all right. A story does not tell a story. This story does not show the depth of the sense of meaning in the world. Well there was never a time when the sense of meaning of time was a matter of experience. An event does not show you what could have happened if you had been there. And if you did look for it again, then it did not show you how you were supposed to experience it!

Your life is in confusion.

that all matters are connected, all things are connected, your sense of feeling and feeling of the world are connected, and your fear of you is connected, and your feelings are connected.

I don't belong to you. you are the thing you like to see. you are the thing you love I don't have you. I don't know you. i am

Don’t fuck with the user (excerpt), 2021 Arhun Aksakal, Timon and Melchior Grau

Our relationship to objects is constantly evolving, to the extent that the interrelation is being reversed. Objects are becoming more personal and are increasingly influencing our thoughts and actions. When the environment is designed purely to meet our needs and we are no longer aware of its natural state - how much control do we continue to have over ourselves? This ambivalent relationship between humans and design - from magnetic attraction to frightening dependence - can be experienced in the context of the immersive installation and leads to a reflection on our own existence.

Arhun Aksakal (*1995 Offenbach am Main) lives and works in Frankfurt am Main.
Since 2020 he has been studying at the Städelschule in the class of Willem de Rooij and Cyprien Gaillard. Previously he was at the Kunsthochschule Kassel (class Pauline Curnier Jardin, class Dr. Andrea Büttner), University of Sulaimani, Autonomous Region of Kurdistan (DAAD scholarship), Università Iuav di Venezia, Italy (class Alberto Garutti). Arhun Aksakal's works were recently shown at Kressmann-Halle, Offenbach am Main; Musrara Mix Festival, Jerusalem as well as L187, Offenbach am Main.

Timon & Melchior Grau (*1990, 1991, Hamburg) live and work in Berlin and Hamburg. They studied at the Berlin University of the Arts ( class Hito Steyerl, class Ai Weiwei) and graduated from the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main (class Willem de Rooij). Recently, they exhibited their work at Portikus, Frankfurt am Main; Shore Gallery, Vienna; Salone Del Mobile, Milan; Museum of Photography, Berlin; Johanne, Frankfurt am Main; M+B Gallery, Los Angeles; and SUPER, Athens, among others.

invited by Vivien Kämpf.

http://arhunaksakal.com
http://grau01.com

https://vimeo.com/561384802

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