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Opening: 20 July, 2 – 7pm
Exhibition dates: 20 July – 15 August
Performance-lecture
We, the Foodimals
3 August, 2:30pm
rsvp: [email protected]
Proyecto AMIL
Tschlin
Proyecto AMIL is pleased to announce Train to be a Tribe, an exhibition at Proyecto AMIL in Tschlin, Switzerland by Jérémie Sarbach and Flurina Badel.
Train to be a Tribeis a selection of new works and a performance-lecture, that are closely interlinked in both content and form. The eponymous work of the exhibition is a series of large, muscular, kiwi-like sculptures with a strong physical presence. Exhibited in a former stable in Tschlin, their aspect becomes even more animalistic. The relationship between humans and other animals and the nature-culture dichotomy, are two central explorations in Badel / Sarbach’s practice. Exhibited for the first time are the sculptures Cotschen Plantsand the wall piece Cotschen Tongs. The starting point of these two works was the cochineal louse. This animal was pulverized and imported to Europe where it was used as a pigment. The cochineal louse is an animal that has shaped art history and played an important role in various distinct processes and the visualization of power. The cochineal louse is still bred in Peru and exported to Switzerland, mirroring the exchange between the Engadine and Lima, the headquarters of Proyecto AMIL.
On Saturday, August 3, Badel/Sarbach will conduct performance-lecture We, the Foodimals. This is a fruit carving workshop and thought-provoking stimulus about high culture and popular culture in one. This performance-lecture condenses the themes of the exhibition: the triangular relationship of humans-animals-plants, the fruit as a social hotspot, the exhibition as a social hotspot, the use of tools, the presence and absence of the body, and, finally, again and again, the finding of form in sculpture. To attend We the Foodimals, rsvp: [email protected]
Badel / Sarbachare an artist-duo that formed in 2014. They grew up in the small mountaineer villages in the Swiss Alps and studied art as a second degree. In 2015, Flurina received her Master’s degree and Jérémie his Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts at the Institut Kunst HGK FHNW Basel and at the Cooper Union NYC. Currently Jérémie is completing his Master’s degree in Fine Arts at Institut Kunst HGK FHNW Basel and at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna. Badel / Sarbach’s work has been exhibited in Europe, Canada and the USA. They are laureate of the Manor Kunstpreis 2019 and were nominated for the Basler Medienkunstpreis 2018.
www.badelsarbach.ch
