Bradley Davies ; Hold Your Horses

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Tent. Keulen, Temporary Gallery, 09-07-2022, 04-09-2022. - A starting point of his exhibition at Temporary Gallery is an anecdotal incident. At the time of the French occupation, Cologne Cathedral is said to have been used, among other things, as a stable for Napoleonic troops. The historically significant soundscape of the site at that time will be restaged in the Temporary Gallery exhibition space in the form of a speculative field recording. The work not only deals with the craft of sound imitation as a means of representation and illusion. In the blending of sacred, animal, and aesthetic place, it also refers to the city's inscribed heritage of role reversal and the carnivalesque, which in turn becomes a model for this art in its celebration of inversion, banality, deception, and the dissolution of ego.The exhibition is accompanied by a booklet featuring a curatorial Essay and an excerpt from the book „Memoirs of Dick. The Little Poney“ (1800).