Tatiana Arce is showing an exhibition in two parts in the art spaces message salon and Wäscherei, Kunstverein Zürich. Both exhibitions focus on nostalgia and attempts to recreate memories and feelings, and the shifts and deviations that arise in the process.
In the message salon, the artist, who grew up in Geneva and lives in Zurich, presents a series of drawings. The starting point for the installation is an illustrated encyclopaedia with etchings from 1922: a fish and a man stand unexpectedly opposite each other. This motif of the encounter is redrawn by the artist in several variations from memory. In the art room, a nostalgic gramophone and records from the period accompany the delicate drawings. The motif of a man fighting an animal, the fish, refers to an additional level of female fantasy and erotic-animal symbolism.
In the second part of the exhibition, in Wäscherei on Dienerstrasse, Tatiana Arce stages the art space scenographically in memory of the 80s song title “Bizarre Love Triangle” by the new wave band New Order.
Bizarre Love Triangle, part 2, Wäscherei. Kunstverein Zürich
Vernissage Friday, 6 July, 7–10pm, exhibition until 13 July, Dienerstrasse 70, 8004 Zurich
A concept by Anissa Nussbaumer