I wanna be daylight in your eyes

with Joel Aguilar, Mariyam Obregon Lutzin, Phil Sathlhut | curated by Sam Afshari Vegah Far
+DEDE HQ office, 2022

Wanna live forever

Wanna touch your hand and explode like a star

At the interface between existence and absence, the desire for infinity meets the affirmation of impulsive destruction through intense touch.

In the context of this exhibition, different artistic perspectives show negotiations between reality and fiction. Starting from nostalgic positions, the limits and (in)dependencies of artistic phantasms are formulated individually and collectively. In a cross-genre understanding, reference is made at this point to the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, who understands phantasms as imaginary products of subjective memory and psychological coping/interpretation mechanisms in dealing with reality. 

By means of a reflexive examination, the three artists develop a room-sized installation in which they compare individual and collective imprints and deconstruct them in the context of a joint exhibition. Biographical intersections result from generation-specific confrontations with pop and subculture as well as media consumption. Different questions are in turn raised, for example, by gender issues and socialization processes.

Common truths, lies, fears, desires, and dreams are related and described or stylized against the background of early childhood ignorance.

I wanna be daylight.

Does the desire to be light mean a dissolution of physical existence? Or do the No Angels sing about a romantic ideal of a post-mortem existence in their hit from 2001? In any case, escapist tendencies can be identified here whose topicality has not diminished over the years.

In this sense, this exhibition discusses previous motifs through a convolute of individual phantasms and wants to create a space that becomes a kind of reservoir and place of collective reflection.