Artist: Pakui Hardware
Exhibition title: Avoider of Disorder
Venue: Future Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
Date: December 15, 2018 – February 16, 2019
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Future Gallery, Berlin/Mexico City
Avoider of Disorder is someone who looks for patterns in apparent chaos.
Avoider of Disorder is someone who sings karaoke about immortal jellyfish.
Is someone who hallucinates.
Avoider of Disorder believes hydra is the key to longevity.
Avoider of Disorder suspends her disbeliefs.
Avoider of Disorder says: “what if DNA is two interweaved serpents seen under drug influence?”.
Avoider of Disorder says: “plants communicate their knowledge to me”.
Avoider of Disorder grows tissues outside of human body.
Avoider of Disorder hides behind masks and smoke.
Avoider of Disorder is feeling hopelessly uncertain.
Avoider of Disorder avoids thinking about Frankenstein and economy,
While looking at pulsating heart placed in a dish.
Tacit knowledge of living things is what the avoider of disorder seeks to crack down.
Pakui Hardware, founded in 2014 by Neringa Černiauskaitė and Ugnius Gelguda had solo shows among others at Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (DE, 2019), Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld (DE), EXILE, Vienna, Tenderpixel Gallery, London (all 2018), Trafó contemporary art center, Budapest, SIC gallery, Helsinki (both 2017), MUMOK, Vienna (2016), kim? Contemporary Art Center, Riga (2015), Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius (2014). Their latest group exhibitions include venues of La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (both 2019) MAXXI, Rome, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, Domaine Pommery in Reims (FR), 13th Baltic Triennial at Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Museum Sztuki in Łódź (PL, all 2018), Kunsthalle Basel (SUI), Kunstverein Braunschweig and Kunstverein Freiburg (DE) Assembly Point, London, 20th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil, São Paulo (BR), National Gallery of Art, Vilnius (all 2017).
Pakui Hardware, Avoider of Disorder, 2019. Glass, leather, textiles, metal holder, 202x39x31 cm
Pakui Hardware, Avoider of Disorder, 2019. Exhibition view
Pakui Hardware, Avoider of Disorder, 2019. 2 glass objects, faux fur, leather, textiles, metal holder, 210x153x140 cm
Pakui Hardware, Avoider of Disorder, 2019. 2 glass objects, faux fur, leather, textiles, metal holder (detail), 210x153x140 cm
Pakui Hardware, Avoider of Disorder, 2019. Exhibition view
Pakui Hardware, Avoider of Disorder, 2019. Glass, leather, textiles, metal holder, 202x39x31 cm
Pakui Hardware, Avoider of Disorder, 2019. Glass, iron, 73x73x21 cm
Pakui Hardware, Avoider of Disorder, 2019. Exhibition view
Pakui Hardware, Avoider of Disorder, 2019. Glass, iron, silicone, chia seeds, 73x73x21 cm
Pakui Hardware, Avoider of Disorder, 2019. 2 glass objects, faux fur, leather, textiles, metal holder (detail), 210x153x140 cm (detail)
Pakui Hardware, Avoider of Disorder, 2019. Glass, leather, textiles, metal holder, 202x39x31 cm
Pakui Hardware, Avoider of Disorder, 2019. Exhibition view
Pakui Hardware, Avoider of Disorder, 2019. Glass, leather, various textiles, 228x85x41 cm (detail)
Pakui Hardware, Avoider of Disorder, 2019. Glass, iron, silicone, chia seeds, 73x73x21 cm
Pakui Hardware, Avoider of Disorder, 2019. Glass, leather, various textiles, 228x85x41 cm
Pakui Hardware, Avoider of Disorder, 2019. Glass, leather, textiles, metal holder, 202x39x31 cm (detail)
