GUTS is 153 meters of white floor-to-ceiling curtains and the space they enclose. GUTS is also what transpires in this space: a program of art exhibitions, readings, and performances. The soft walls diffuse light, dampen sound, and require creative hanging. They are temporary and transient, deployed only when needed and portable by suitcase. When unfurled, GUTS becomes a site of political and aesthetic digestion. To take digestion as the guiding principle for an exhibition space is to acknowledge that it takes time to process art and that making or consuming art is not always productive. Taste may determine what enters the digestive system, but the gut is responsible for sorting nutrients from waste. This task is imperfect and never-ending but it provides sustenance. GUTS invites viewers to ruminate and strives to offer energy for future exercise.
Andy Fitz
7PM
17 - 30 May
opening 16th of May, 7 - 9PM
7PM Hobrechtstrasse 31, people arrive at the back yard to enter the space. There are drinks set out on a low table, and makeshift seating. Some people greet each other, and stand in groups around the car park. The couple who run the space take turns riding the elevator up to the third floor, giving out the text and showing the way into the space.
Please join us for the opening on May 16th.
Exhibition runs May 17th – 30th.
Material roles are crossed, one thing shifting to impersonate another. A moment is implied and performed repetitively across disjointed timelines. Before the artwork was installed, people came together at the space to read the exhibition text aloud in the room.
Andy Fitz makes figurative artworks in which mutable elements of recognizable things are emphasised and fixed in place.
