Artists: Nicole-Antonia Spagnola, Richard Sides
Exhibition title: Slow Dance (4)
Curated by: Luca Beeler & Richard Sides
Venue: Stadtgalerie Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Date: July 8 – September 9, 2023
Photography: Studio Mussano / all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Stadtgalerie, Bern
Slow Dance is composed of sixteen scenes, consisting of four different rooms in four exhibitions over a period of six months. During this time, the exhibition spaces remain structured by two walls, each with a functioning door. Instead of providing an overview,they offer passages. Slow Dance could describe the attitudes of a person in conversation as they attempt to provoke reactions in other people. Here, what slowly comes into focus is the political implications of subliminal choreography.
Slow Dance grows out of an ongoing conversation around the convergence between the specificities of exhibition making and installation. Theartworks and objects cohabiting within the structure of the exhibition form an interconnected logic that mirrors living in constant relationship with various active temporalities and timescales. How we encounter the material world is at once a form of compromise whilst simultaneously an experience of precarious accumulation. Scale, growth and history confuse our sense of ideology. Organic Rhythms zoom out from media realities.
Slow Dance (4) is about time (again), with more of a focus on looping and archiving. Processes connected with transference and the use and appropriation of recording technologies perform as idiosyncratic forms of resistance.
with a loop the duration of the image is always
ongoing or in the midst, the loop persists
with or without you and so any attention
paid to past/beginning or future/end is
somewhat moot
Slow Dance (4), Stadtgalerie Bern, 2023, installation view. Photo: Studio Mussano
Richard Sides, Out of Time (2), 2022-23, Slow Dance (4), Stadtgalerie Bern, 2023. Photo: Studio Mussano
Nicole-Antonia Spagnola, BNM, 2023, Slow Dance (4), Stadtgalerie Bern, 2023, installation view. Photo: Studio Mussano
Nicole-Antonia Spagnola, BNM, 2023, Slow Dance (4), Stadtgalerie Bern, 2023, installation view. Photo: Studio Mussano
Slow Dance (4), Stadtgalerie Bern, 2023, installation view. Photo: Studio Mussano
Slow Dance (4), Stadtgalerie Bern, 2023, installation view. Photo: Studio Mussano
Slow Dance (4), Stadtgalerie Bern, 2023, installation view. Photo: Studio Mussano
Richard Sides, Out of Time (3), 2022-23, Slow Dance (4), Stadtgalerie Bern, 2023. Photo: Studio Mussano
Slow Dance (4), Stadtgalerie Bern, 2023, installation view. Photo: Studio Mussano
Slow Dance (4), Stadtgalerie Bern, 2023, installation view. Photo: Studio Mussano
Richard Sides, How Trains Changed the World, 2022, Slow Dance (4), Stadtgalerie Bern, 2023. Photo: Studio Mussano
Richard Sides, How Trains Changed the World, 2022, Slow Dance (4), Stadtgalerie Bern, 2023. Photo: Studio Mussano
Nicole-Antonia Spagnola, Untitled (RD1), 2023, Slow Dance (4), Stadtgalerie Bern, 2023. Photo: Studio Mussano
Nicole-Antonia Spagnola, Untitled (RD1), 2023, Slow Dance (4), Stadtgalerie Bern, 2023. Photo: Studio Mussano
Slow Dance (4), Stadtgalerie Bern, 2023, installation view. Photo: Studio Mussano
Nicole-Antonia Spagnola, Untitled (interlude 2), 2023, Slow Dance (4), Stadtgalerie Bern, 2023. Photo: Studio Mussano
Nicole-Antonia Spagnola, Untitled (interlude 2), 2023, Slow Dance (4), Stadtgalerie Bern, 2023. Photo: Studio Mussano
Slow Dance (4), Stadtgalerie Bern, 2023, installation view. Photo: Studio Mussano
Nicole-Antonia Spagnola, Untitled (RD1), 2023, Slow Dance (4), Stadtgalerie Bern, 2023. Photo: Studio Mussano
Slow Dance (4), Stadtgalerie Bern, 2023, installation view. Photo: Studio Mussano
Richard Sides, Out of Time (3), 2022-23, Slow Dance (4), Stadtgalerie Bern, 2023. Photo: Studio Mussano
Richard Sides, Out of Time (3), 2022-23, Slow Dance (4), Stadtgalerie Bern, 2023. Photo: Studio Mussano
Slow Dance (4), Stadtgalerie Bern, 2023, installation view. Photo: Studio Mussano
Slow Dance (4), Stadtgalerie Bern, 2023, installation view. Photo: Studio Mussano
Richard Sides, Out of Time (2), 2022-23, Slow Dance (4), Stadtgalerie Bern, 2023. Photo: Studio Mussano
Slow Dance (4), Stadtgalerie Bern, 2023, installation view. Photo: Studio Mussano