exhibition

CARREFOUR DES POSSIBLES VII: SENSE OF TOUCH

Younes Ben Slimane, Ava Binta Giallo, and Verena Schneider 

11/09 – 28/09/2024

curated by Aline Lenzhofer & Christine Bruckbauer

 

 

PARALLEL VIENNA  12/09 – 15/09/2024

Opening: Wednesday, 11/09/2024, 5-10 pm

Thu-Fri 1-8pm, Sat-Sun 11am-8pm

Location: Otto Wagner Areal – Pavillion 16, Floor 3, Room 319, Baumgartner Höhe 1, 1140 Vienna

 

 

PHILOMENA+  20/09 – 28/09/2024

Opening with performance: Friday, 20/09/2024, 7 pm

Talk between Younes Ben Slimane and Gerhard Zsutty (director of the brick museum in Vienna): Friday, 20/09/2024, 5pm

Reading Session with Ava Binta Giallo: Monday, 23/09/2024, 6pm

Movement Workshop with Verena Schneider: Monday, 23/09/2024, 7.30pm

Wed-Fri 11am-3pm, Sat 3-6 pm

Venue: philomena+ project room, Heinestraße 40, 1020 Vienna

Ava Binta Giallo, 2017, Untitled,  burned clay, close-up part of installation, photo: Johannes Baudrexel

A lump of clay, kneaded by human hands and molded into a cuboid, that is the oldest surviving brick. At 9,000 years old, It still bears witness to the human endeavors to utilize the elements found in nature for their own needs. The trio that has come together for this exhibition to work on creating a multidisciplinary scenario that questions the significance of human intervention in nature and allows us to experience the fragility of our habitat atmospherically. What traces do we leave behind in nature? What is the effect of a touch?

In his installation of unfired bricks, Younes Ben Slimane refers to the industrialization of building material production by interrupting the mechanical production process. In parallel, he presents his film All Come from Dust, which focuses on the ongoing artisanal production of bricks in southern Tunisia. The documentary perspective gradually transforms into a meditation on the transformation of matter.

Ava Binta Giallo’s poetic spatial installation with small, strung-together clay objects on earthen soil can be understood as a spatial survey. The artist addresses the fragility of natural soil as well as, the built environment by questioning, commenting on, and expanding spatial conditions, standard measurements, and architectural decisions.

Verena Schneider’s performative actions in the exhibition highlight the mutual touch between humans and natural materials. She works with her body, making its impressions visible directly in unfired clay. Circus acrobatics and handstand techniques illustrate the discussion about the ecological footprint and handprint.

 

Carrefour des Possibles is an annual residency and exhibition program established in 2018, in collaboration with La Boîte Tunis. Each time, an artist from Tunis is matched with an artist from Vienna. The newly formed duos are invited to present the philomena+ project statement at Parallel Vienna and at the same time to conceive an exhibition for the space in Heinestraße 40.

artists

YOUNES BEN SLIMANE

is a Tunisian architect, filmmaker, and visual artist. He studied architecture at the École nationale d’architecture et d’urbanisme (ENAU) and film at Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains. Working through film, video, photography, drawing and installation, Younes Ben Slimane establishes a permanent dialogue between architecture and visual arts, where different mediums coexist and reflect each other’s potentialities and limitations. His films have been selected in international festivals such as Locarno Film Festival and cph:dox. His work has been exhibited at the Mucem in Marseille, Solar -Galeria de Arte Cinemática in Vila do conde and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje. At the beginning of this year, he realised the solo exhibition Images de Tunisie at the Zaha Hadid Foundation in London.

 AVA BINTA GIALLO

is a German-Guinean visual artist and poet who lives and works in Vienna and Mindelo on the Cape Verde Islands. She studied TransArts at the University of Applied Arts and Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts. Ava Binta Giallo’s works include poetic installations, analogue films and expansive works. Thematically, she focuses on ecological issues, the use of natural resources and the relationship between humans and the environment. Her works have already been exhibited at Exhibit, the Donaufestival in Krems, Galerie AG18, Heiligenkreuzerhof and Fotogalerie Wien, among others. In 2024, she is also involved in the Operndorf Afrika project as part of the Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut and currently presents her works at Basis Frankfurt.

VERENA SCHNEIDER

is a dancer, acrobat, and choreographer. She grew up in Kramsach (Tyrol) and works today between Vienna and Innsbruck. Verena Schneider studied contemporary circus and performance at Le Lido – ESAC-Toulouse (FR). She is currently doing a part-time master’s degree in choreography at Codarts Rotterdam. Together with Charlotte Le May, she founded the binational contemporary circus company Kumquat and worked on the performance “Alter” and the video exhibition “Augenblicke”. These have been shown at SOHO STUDIOS, Theater Arche, BRUX / Freies Theater Innsbruck, WUK performing arts, among others. This summer she is completing the DANCWEB programme at Impulstanz Vienna.

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