“I want to know what his room looks like. I think it’d be nice to know what he hangs on his walls; if he sleeps in a bed like me, or in a pool of stagnant water; if there are lights, or candles, or windows, or grates in the ceiling, or television screens, or stuffed animals. If it looks anything at all like the kind of room I sleep in, or if it would frighten me to see because of how not-like-me it is.
“The Palmist” by Kitty Horrorshow (excerpt) for the show COMP NUMB LIMB at HFKD, 2023
“There are houses that drip blood, houses with watchers in the woods, houses chillingly wrong in all dimensions, houses built on top of pits whose inhabitants begin to covet what they see everyday, who stalk and lurk through night-vision goggles; there are houses built on sour ground where dead is better, there are last houses on the left where springs flow from virgins. These houses are neighbors to us, sitting directly behind our world, attached to the backs of our playable character’s heads. If you’re not careful and noclip out of reality in the wrong areas you might find yourself there.”
Exhibition text by Maggie Dunlap (excerpt) for the show DAPPER PEEPERS at No Gallery, 2o23
Rolf Nowotny (b. 1978) lives and works in Copenhagen and has exhibited widely in Denmark and abroad, including at Arken in Ishøj, Kunsthal Aarhus, Museo Pietro Canonica in Rome and at Momentum – 9th Nordic Biennial for Contemporary Art in Moss, Norway.