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Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Pilvi Takala, Close Watch, 2022, Video Installation.
The Finnish artist Pilvi Takala presents Close Watch, a new video installation that examines work cultures, communities and the presence of security in our everyday lives. For a period of six months, Takala worked as a security guard in a shopping mall in Finland. This multi-channel installation is based on her experiences and conversations, as well as those of the other security guards working in the mall. The work questions the complex roles security plays in society, providing protection, and at the same time maintaining control.
Zürich
Rirkrit Tiravanija, untitled 1995 (bon voyage monsieur ackermann), 1995, Sammlung Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst. Photo: Stefan Altenburger, Zurich.
These days, we often associate friendship with the notion of a bond based on mutual trust, which supports us, not least in times of crisis. Yet friendships are also complex, contradictory structures that may indeed be subversive in character.
Inspired by Ragnar Kjartanssons’ video installation The Visitors, which can be understood as a homage to friendship, the team of the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst has selected for the exhibition, Acts of Friendship works from the collection, that in their view represent a particular aspect of friendship. The selected works, around 30 in all, are shown in three theme-based groups of works.
With works from the collection by Judith Bernstein, Alighiero Boetti, Alicia Framis, Gabriela Fridriksdóttir, Jan Peter Hammer, Lang/Baumann, Teresa Margolles, Bernhard Martin, Juan Muñoz and Rirkrit Tiravanija
Zürich