TOGETHER WE CAN FIND AN ANSWER
GAIA VINCENSINI

Solo show, July 23 - August 19 2017

Swiss Music, 2017 (excerpt)
Performance (20 min) at Ruine Urgiz, July 22 2017


Life’s questions - Together we can find an answer

What do you really plan out of life?
The most rewarding career, time to enjoy your interests or the chance to make a difference?
In the current climate of political change, it’s hard to know how our lives will be affected. When planning for the future there’s always uncertainty.
Will I be remembered?
How can I give back?
What will be the impact?
What’s the right answer for you?
Not sure where to start.

The gigantic glass doors open in front of me in a majestic automatic smoothness. Bathed in a golden dim light, high ceilings and exhaling a sharp silver plated luxury that recalls some Gothic cathedrals, the beast swallows me. Suddenly I feel reminded of my external appearance, disheveled, wrinkled, organic. In total shift with this metallic environment, creamy, cooper gold, cold and ordered, a perfect set of cogs rattling in a seemingly perpetual movement.

I am here for various reasons. The common denominator of them is money, or rather the lack of it, and its consequences. They are gradually creating a close bond between this fascinating and terrifying iron monster and I. His marketing scales interlock effortlessly into each other forming existential questions Mirroring the anxieties, desires and dreams of human beings. They taint the scales with thousand of shining and shimmering colours that completely and almost painfully mesmerises us.

But when, making a colossal effort, I can get my eyes off this hypnotic reflection to look at the beast in the eyes, I only see a soulless golem, a chrome textured entity reflecting and feeding itself infinitely.

Gaia Vincensini

Installation view Gaia Vincensini - Together we can find an answer, 2017

Swiss Music, percussion instrument for performance, 2017
Found metal bank logo, fabric, embroidery

After Cédric, 15 minutes late in clock country, 2017
Ink on engraved plexy, LEDs, metal

Life's Questions (Can I truly make a difference?, Do other people's expectations affect our lives?), 2017
Etching on paper, metal

Installation view Together we can find an answer, 2017

Life's Questions (How do we pass on our values?), 2017
Etching on paper, metal

After Cédric, 15 minutes late in clock country, 2017
Ink on engraved plexy, LEDs, metal

Life's Questions (Am I missing my children growing up?), 2017
Etching on paper, metal

Installation view Together we can find an answer, 2017

After Cédric, 15 minutes late in clock country, 2017
Ink on engraved plexy, LEDs, metal

Swiss Music, dress for performance, 2017
Fabric, embroidery

Nothing stops Topsy, 2017
Acrylics on canvas, my roommate's broken ikea bed

Life's Questions (Am I losing?), 2017
Etching on paper, metal

Installation view Together we can find an answer, 2017

Nothing stops Topsy, 2017 (details)
Acrylics on canvas, my roommate's broken ikea bed

Life's Questions (Have I gone as far as I can?), 2017
Etching on paper, metal

A clock for Urgizzy, 2017
Ink on engraved plexy, lamp, metal

All documentation photos by Claude Barault