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Searching for comfort in an uncomfortable chair, 13/6 – 10/7/2015

CLOG opens its doors for the first time with the autobiographical exhibition Searching for comfort in an uncomfortable chair and a weekend of events dedicated to the neighbourhood.

Searching for comfort in an uncomfortable chair is a pseudo-exhibition in a home-like environment. Its theoretical assumptions can be found in the ambivalence of architecture as cruel design, i.e. production of structures which impose, seduce and replicate power devices and intangible hierarchies, and architecture as embodied habitus, meaning the objectification of social habits, informal identities and rhizomatic practices – more or less spontaneous and more or less marked by anarchoid tendencies.

Searching for comfort in an uncomfortable chair involves a cluster of works and projects by contemporary artists, forced to live with unsolicited, unnecessary and often abusive art reproductions; dusty relics of personal stories; borrowed and never returned objects and an interior decor undoubtedly index of un- disguised bad taste. As in the worst histories of art collectors, the whole installation is legitimised by the randomness of an officially private dimension, and is pandered by the omnipresent justificatory power of the caption.

with Riccardo Benassi / Bestué y Vives / Lia Cecchin / Cristian Chironi / Matteo Ferrari / Funambulist / Bruno Munari / Antonio Piga / Cosimo Piga / Valentina Roselli and Marco Scarcella / Kimitake Sato / Mattia Solari / Superstudio / Spela Volcic

ph Spela Volcic