Exo Exo, Paris – A Thousand Friends

A Thousand Friends (part 2)
Daniele Milvio, Olga Pedan, Matthieu Haberard, Micah Hesse, Stefan Fuchs, Bianca Bondi, Rosa Aiello, Aline Bouvy, Sandra Vaka Olsen, Clément Roche, Kareem Lotfy, Nuno Patrício, Antoine Donzeaud, Dominic Samsworth, Dorota Gaweda & Eglé Kulbokaité, Hilda Stammarnäs, Agata Ingarden, Austin Lee, Chris Lecler, Yorgos Stamkopoulos, Hubert Marot, Strauss Bourque Lafrance, Loup Sarion, Sean Raspet, Bending Binding, Liesl Raff & Christoph Meier, Mathis Collins

curated by Exo Exo

New Jörg, Vienna
September 9 - September 23, 2016

press release

A Thousand Friends (part 2), 2016
Exhibition view, New Jörg, Vienna

Bending Binding, Kooling Systems (Jamaïcan smiley face), 2016
Licorice, glue

A Thousand Friends (part 2), 2016
Exhibition view, New Jörg, Vienna

Austin Lee, Grace, 2016
3D print

A Thousand Friends (part 2), 2016
Exhibition view, New Jörg, Vienna

Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, Ai flower with Ai jaws wide open, 2016
Concrete, fake nails, nail jewelry, acrylic paint, diffuser sticks

Agata Ingarden, Chewing gum, 2016
Magnet, epoxy, ladybird, tabacco

Daniele Milvio, Una testa, di un nemico, 2016
Bee’s wax, plaster, paraffine, hemp fabric, straw, encaust painting

A Thousand Friends (part 2), 2016
Exhibition view, New Jörg, Vienna

Mathis Collins, The Drunken Gaze, 2016
Cups, glass eye, copper staples, pvc, glue

Stefan Fuchs, Versuchen sie es mal mit intelligentem content, 2016
Acrylic on canvas

A Thousand Friends (part 2), 2016
Exhibition view, New Jörg, Vienna

Loup Sarion, Seeds (from the superstitious), 2016
Fresh eggs, marble stones, epoxy, pigments, dutch newspaper, polyester paint

Agata Ingarden, Golem XIV, 2016
Computer screen, metal, sponge, epoxy, cardboard box

Hubert Marot, Gova V et VI, 2016
Glazed stoneware

Clément Roche, Structure oasienne / Voyage voyage 1.2, 2016
Peinture écaillée de pipeline d’eau, métal, mousse florale, MDF

A Thousand Friends (part 2), 2016
Exhibition view, New Jörg, Vienna

Strauss Bourque-Lafrance, Hickory For Now, 2015
Altered bed sheet

Olga Pedan, Vav/Fao, 2016
HD video, sound

Aline Bouvy, Who will wear my teeth as amulets IV, 2016
Jesmonite, fiberglass and natural wax

Sandra Vaka Olsen, Air Net, 2016
Copper mesh, copper wire, citrus fruite, wax

Antoine Donzeaud, Hood Life Oversized Raincoat one size, 2016
Acrylic and spray on polythene

A Thousand Friends (part 2), 2016
Exhibition view, New Jörg, Vienna

Dominic Samsworth, Airmiles, 2016
Digital image

Liesl Raff & Christoph Meier, Untitled, 2016
Fog machines, concrete, PVC

A Thousand Friends (part 2), 2016
Exhibition view, New Jörg, Vienna

Bianca Bondi, Virginia, 2016
Latex, chrome

Micah Hesse, Illuminatic, 2016
HD video animation

A Thousand Friends (part 2), 2016
Exhibition view, New Jörg, Vienna

Matthieu Haberard, Ne jamais arrêter d’apprendre 1, 2016
Acrylic on wall

Matthieu Haberard, Ne jamais arrêter d’apprendre 2, 2016
Acrylic on wall

Chris Leclerc, Will o the wisp, 2016
Steel, epoxy , jesmonite, led system, concrete

Yorgos Stamkopoulos, Untitled, 2016
Acrylic on paper DINA4

Nuno Patricio, Dropbox Pt. I (White Unicorn) & Dropbox Pt. II (The Grand Avatar), 2016
Carbon fiber decals on cardboard boxes, Don Maitz stolen artworks from the Guardians game card series printed onto casino roulette gambling notepad sheets, white screen print on organic cotton fleece, dry grass, lavander, chamomile flowers, water, Red Bull, Calvin Klein Contradiction, inox bowls, latex gloves, six mini plastic pomegranates, ecoline, engine oil

Sean Raspet, Isotope Labeled 6.5% Carbamide Peroxide Aqueous Solution, 2015-2016
Carbamide peroxide solution used for the purpose of cleaning and removing ear wax. (In differing concentrations carbamideperoxide may be used for teeth whitening and cleaning and disinfecting purposes.) Each of the molecular components of the mixture––water, urea and hydrogen peroxide––are isotope labeled: they contain atoms that have a differing number of neutrons than what is typically found in nature. Isotopic labeling is commonly used to track metabolic or chemical reaction products in scientific research and medical diagnostics.

A Thousand Friends (part 2), 2016
Exhibition view, New Jörg, Vienna

Hilda Stammarnäs, Public Backdrop, 2016
Inkjet on canvas

Antoine Donzeaud, Hood Life Oversized Raincoat one size, 2016
Acrylic and spray on polythene

The philosophy of networks draws on the metaphor of human networks applied to the physical networks of society, based on the hypothesis and capacity of a physical parallel to ensure a form of connection between individuals. Therefore establishing ties would pass by means of transport, the development of railroads, telecommunications, right up until computers and the internet.

While Antoine was completing a residency in Lithuania last January, everything revolved around the idea of movement : working, going out for drinks, grocery shopping, going to a concert. Stepping out, taking out a car, carrying out a journey, taking the car back, carrying out the journey back. Nothing could be thought of without taking the distance into account, the time required in order to cover it. Imagining the distance. Accepting the trip. Over there - geographically isolated - he however constantly referred to closeness, physical ties, a weaving of relationships, and friendships.

A thousand friends is a gathering. For the show in Vienna, the artists are sending their works, objects, digital files, video or sound. From Paris, Antoine and I are bringing pieces along with us in our suitcases. Some friends and artists are trusting us with their works for the show. Others are coming all the way to Vienna to install them, or just to drop them off. Everything has been falling into place meeting up over here. The framework of the place, the time frame, us and the works and the physical mechanics of it all. The displacement and the journey entailed a circumstance of coming together, a network of interactions subjected to a practical economy, of exchange, limited in time, constraint in volume. Mobility as the true and unique challenge for connecting.
y popular star, past heroine from a science fiction story.

ER