• Mayo setting up the exhibition, in the foyer Perla-Mode

    Mayo setting up the exhibition, in the foyer Perla-Mode  

  • Mayo & Friends, setting upn in Perla-Mode

    Mayo & Friends, setting upn in Perla-Mode 

  • Mayo & Friends, setting up in Perla-Mode

    Mayo & Friends, setting up in Perla-Mode 

  • Mayo & Friends, setting up on roof top, Perla-Mode

    Mayo & Friends, setting up on roof top, Perla-Mode 

  • Mayo & Friends, exhibition at Perla-Mode, Langstrasse

    Mayo & Friends, exhibition at Perla-Mode, Langstrasse 

  • Mayo & Friends Gift Shop, Perla-Mode Corner

    Mayo & Friends Gift Shop, Perla-Mode Corner  

  • "Mayo's police car collection", Perla-Mode

    "Mayo's police car collection", Perla-Mode 

  • Mayo & Friends, remodelling, Perla-Mode

    Mayo & Friends, remodelling, Perla-Mode 

  • "Mayo's wardrobe - caps" message salon, Perla-Mode 1st floor

    "Mayo's wardrobe - caps" message salon, Perla-Mode 1st floor 

  • "Mayo's wardrobe", message salon, Perla-Mode 1st floor

    "Mayo's wardrobe", message salon, Perla-Mode 1st floor  

  • "Mayo's wardrobe - Proletarier I, Proletarier II", message salon, Perla-Mode 1st floor

    "Mayo's wardrobe - Proletarier I, Proletarier II", message salon, Perla-Mode 1st floor 

  • "Mayo's wardrobe - Proletarier III," message salon, Perla-Mode 1st floor

    "Mayo's wardrobe - Proletarier III," message salon, Perla-Mode 1st floor 

  • "Mayo's wardrobe -socks", message salon, Perla-Mode 1st floor

    "Mayo's wardrobe -socks", message salon, Perla-Mode 1st floor 

  • Mayo & Friends Gift Shop, Perla-Mode Corner

    Mayo & Friends Gift Shop, Perla-Mode Corner  

  • Mayo & Friends Gift Shop, Perla-Mode Corner

    Mayo & Friends Gift Shop, Perla-Mode Corner  

  • "Mayo's wardrobe", message salon, Perla-Mode 1st floor

    "Mayo's wardrobe", message salon, Perla-Mode 1st floor  

  • Mayo & Friends Gift Shop, Perla-Mode Corner

    Mayo & Friends Gift Shop, Perla-Mode Corner  

  • "Mayo's art collection", Perla-Mode

    "Mayo's art collection", Perla-Mode 

  • Mayo & Friends Gift Shop, Perla-Mode Corner

    Mayo & Friends Gift Shop, Perla-Mode Corner  

  • "Mayo's wardrobe", message salon, Perla-Mode 1st floor

    "Mayo's wardrobe", message salon, Perla-Mode 1st floor  

  • Mayo & Friends Gift Shop, Perla-Mode Corner

    Mayo & Friends Gift Shop, Perla-Mode Corner  

  • Mayo & Friends Gift Shop, Perla-Mode Corner

    Mayo & Friends Gift Shop, Perla-Mode Corner  

  • "Mayo's children's paradise", Perla-Mode Foyer

    "Mayo's children's paradise", Perla-Mode Foyer  

  • Mayo & Friends Billboard, Perla-Mode

    Mayo & Friends Billboard, Perla-Mode 

Mayo & Friends

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Vernissage Friday, 24 August, 7pm-2pm
Exhibition open Wednesday 6pm-10pm, Friday and Saturday 3pm-6pm

Season opening in Aussersihl
Perla-Mode house party, Wednesday 29 August, from 6pm
Mayo & Friends presents: The Real Fake MC & DJ Suspect from Zulu Nation (Paris, F), concert 9 pm

message salon, Perla-Mode
Langstrasse84/Brauerstrasse37, 8004 Zurich

Mayo & Friends exhibition at Perla-Mode is the résumé of a young artist. Childhood is over, the friends are still there, but changes are happening, people are losing sight of each other, life in the adult world is taking its toll. Emigrate? Have children? Become an artist?
The motto is still action, the assistant job in artists’ studios brings money for life and partying, the style is crazy – and always there: the friends – a gang of wild kids. They go against the expectations of serious life, have ideals such as friendship and solidarity, celebrate living together and take the space that becomes the biotope of their art and creativity. Mayo & Friends convey a snapshot of the attitude to life of a generation that grew up in Zurich in the nineties and the noughties and is searching for its identity and its place.
Mayo wants to get an overview and wrestles with an overflowing collection of personal memories, stowed away in the Perla-Mode basement in piled-up boxes and crates, filled to the brim with sketches, photo albums, police cars, jewellery, notes, plastic toys, letters and works of art from friends. Everything is meaningful, everything is a diary and documentation – art and life. The art space becomes the workplace of Mayo & Friends, the chaotic collection is assembled, dismantled and reorganised into installations.

On the first floor of Perla-Mode, in the message salon, Mayo installs a walk-in, interactive wardrobe with clothes from his collection. Clothing is always also a costume, statement and style, telling stories of everyday life, work and parties. The worn clothes become artefacts in the walk-in wardrobe in the art space, and for the young artist an assurance of a lived existence.

In the corner location of Perla-Mode, Mayo & Friends present an exclusive Mayo & Friends Giftshop with souvenirs, art, publications, graphics, photos, T-shirts, fashion and jewellery put together for this exhibition.

Mayo & Friends are Mayo, Frida, Mayka, Manon, Lili, Michele Da Best, Sabo, Ferdi, Moe, Esta, Amos, Veli, Dario, Caro, Bombe, Hanna & Malou & Louis, Kristin & Frank, Sonja, Soene, Sinta, Moritz, August, Basil klein, Wundi, Domi, Lena, Simi, Linnéa, Tom, Sippi, Suska, Gahna & Mazot, Simi, Ädu, Ölu, Pius, Sami, Sämi, Ruben, Peter, Bambi, Heiko, Magdi, Luca, Jose Maria, Samir, Eric, Chantal, Stefan, Katrin, Joe, Charlotte, Silvan, Roman, Jason, Julia, Jakob, Peter, David, Aisha, Theresa, Etienne, Mia, Fuxi, Anna, Luzian, Cyril, Maude, Lucien, Lukas, Mouranne, Maya, Kuka, Rene, Pierre, Maeriem, Piet, Ingo, Lovis, Paola, Tamtam, Selina, Lea, Omar, Jerlyne, MC Fake, DJ Suspect, Adah, Leo, Marie, Arthur Ariel, Küde, Moni, Emily, Martina, Beni, Söne, Smi, Lea …