Magma Maria, Offenbach am Main, Germany
26 October - 11 November 2023
Group show featuring Luzia Cruz, Malin Dorn, Maximilian Glas, Klara Kirsch, Jáno Möckel, Rodrigo Rosa, Anna Stüdeli and Akinori Tao
design by Timon Osche
Structured by the idea of ‘tour’ - a journey for business or pleasure - the tourism industry has grown massively in the last century, sustained by a logic of commodification of pleasure. As free time slowly turned into a product, products such as resorts started to emerge. Offering anything from unlimited food, drinks and activities ranging from scuba diving to sex or safaris for a fixed price, preferably somewhere sunny, these spaces stand as all-inclusive, autonomous islands, the ultimate product of the leisure industry.
RESORT aimed to capture the tension between some of the structuring elements of resorts, such as desire, junk, leisure and anonymousness. The show was framed as a material inquiry, a space where multiple, possibly conflicting positions coexist in order to mirror the tension between joy and violence, which often interplays in tourism.
'Sinkhole 1' and 'Sinkhole 2'. Maximilian Glas, 2023.
'Seductive Girl'. Malin Dorn, 2021.
Zeitkapsel. Akinori Tao, 2023.
'Setting Sun'. Rodrigo Rosa, 2022.
'Fünfte Hilfe Kasten'. Akinori Tao, 2023.
'{FO}'. Anna Stüdeli, 2023.
'Intuition Money Love'. Klara Kirsch, 2021.
'A Correspondent to The Garden of Earthly Delights'. Malin Dorn, 2018.
'Vierte Hilfe Kasten'. Akinori Tao, 2023.
'Feeding Porcelain for a more Sonic Archeology'. Luzia Cruz, 2023
'Scene of a Wrecked Ship'. Jáno Möckel, 2022.