Vamoose, all cacti jut torrid nites

Beschrijving

Tent. Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, 19-06-2014, 24-08-2014. - Publicatie documenteert de site specific installaties van het kunstenaarspaar Julia Rometti (Nice 1975) en Victor Costales (Minsk 1974). - In the multi-faceted works of Rometti and Costales nature becomes a space of inscription for philosophical and literary narratives in which natural objects and forms are the agents. Site-specific installations combine found objects and plants in their natural state with hand-crafted and industrially manufactured goods such as wool rugs and concrete floor tiles. The artists also employ appropriated photographs, their own works in film, and reproductions of literary and academic essays in order to reference specific subject areas. The narratives that are generated in this way incorporate semi-factual, semi-fictional characters and concepts. The artists thereby pursue the issue of perspective, which they render visible in their works by means of transpositions, translations, repetition and recurrence, permutation, imitations and transfers