Documentation from the group exhibition ‘To Romanticize with Indecision’
Curated by Monia Ben Hamouda & Michele Gabriele.
With artworks by Monia Ben Hamouda, Andrew Birk, Anne de Vries, Michele Gabriele, Dorota Gawed̨ a and Eglė Kulbokaite,̇ Bradford Kessler.
At Cassina Projects, Milan, 2024
Title: TRAUMA UNCLOGGED
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2023
Dimensions: Variable
Material: 14 fully functioning toilets on a dance floor with a light and soundsystem.
Description: This “immersive” installation consists of 14 fully functioning toilets on a dancefloor, with lights and a soundsystem.
The installation serves as a stage, hosting several performers, musicians, and the club night, ‘CLUB UNCLOG’. All took place over the course of the one-month exhibition period.
This first incarnation has been hosted and produced by Trauma in Berlin.
April 29th: Opening Night: Evita Manji (live) AMNESIA SCANNER (DJset) SCHIRIN (DJset)
May 4th: TRAUMA UNCLOGGED: PRICE (live performance)
May 11th: TRAUMA UNCLOGGED: Jan Vorisek (live) SADAF (live)
May 20th: CLUB UNCLOG: 7777 の天使, Dmitra, Dasychira, Jasmine Infiniti, DJ Mantis.
Title: Day Care Drill – Episode 02
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2023
Description: This art installation features infantile but not innocent scenes, that include toy-like sculptures that can be played with.
Location: The headquarters of the ‘Parti Communiste Français’, inside the ESPACE building designed by Oscar Niemeyer in Paris.
Curated by Kaleidoscope.
Title: Home Alone
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2022
Material: Rusted metal coating, patina, carved rigid foam core, ceramic toilet, plastic pipes.
Dimensions: 98 x 87 x 100 cm
Where: Blue Velvet Projects, Zürich
Title: STOMPING GROUNDS
About: The art installation ‘Stomping Grounds’ is a 1:1 replica made from sand, of the giant gold vault, underneath the Jewish-owned Wertheim building
which after a turbulent history, and the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 became the cradle of techno music from Detroit, Chicago, UK, and of course Germany, known as Tresor.
Art installation by Anne de Vries in collaboration with
Curators: Adriano Rosselli, Odessa Evelyn Malke
Researcher: Sven von Thülen (der Klang der Familie)
Sand carvers: Bouke Atema, Jeroen Advocaat.
Sound designers: Rowan Ben Jackson, Odysseas Constantinous.
4D Sound programming: Usomo
Location: Kraftwerk Berlin
Title: Détournement 023
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2020
Dimensions: 79 x 59 x 1.4 Inch / 201 x 151 x 3,5 cm
Material: Cotton canvas 380 g, gesso, acrylic paint, photography, kierewiet logo, UV-print, aluminum stretcher.
Title: T.A.Z.
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2018
Dimensions: 85 x 56 x 5,5 cm / 33.5 x 22 x 2.2 Inch
Material: Chinese ink, acrylic paint, laser print,
gesso, narkotek logo, hard foam.
Invitation
Title: Windy
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2020
Size: 200x150cm
Material and techniques: Linen canvas 380g, gesso, acrylic paint, UV-print, a photograph of trees near the Chelsea piers,
with hands from the Rat God by Richard Corben, and a Paris apartment rendered by Bertrand Benoit, oakwood artist frame.
Title: Anarchy in the Hive Mind
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2020
Size: 191x141x4,5cm
Material: 380g linen canvas, gesso, photography of plants from REWE, cartoon bees and hornets, UV-print, CGI, double wood stretcher, aluminum artist frame.
Title: Salsa
Artists: Anne de Vries and Alberto De Michele
Year: 1999
Dimensions: Variable
Materials: Dancefloor with a sound sequence you can dance to, and 5000 packages of Mustard, Duck, and Soy Sauce on the floor to walk and dance on.
Title: OBLIVION
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2016 and 2018
Dimensions: 380 x 200 x 60 cm
Materials: sand, stones, wood, plastic, aluminum, paint, PVA, styrofoam, miniature advertisement campaign, miniature graffiti, miniature truss system, miniature LED projector, miniature Hi-Fi system.
About: Hardstyle event diorama in a scale of 1:87, presenting several texts produced for this installation.
Exhibition view from the 9th Berlin Biennale at the KW in Berlin, Fries Museum in Groningen, KUMU Museum Tallinn.
Read more about this project HERE in Flash Art Magazine
This body of work is inspired by “The dream of King Camp Gillette.” and his proposal for the ideal city. Before perfecting his invention of the safety razor and founding what became a major American industrial and sales enterprise, King Camp Gillette (1855-1932) authored several books and pamphlets calling for radical changes in the country’s economic and social system. The first of these polemical tracts, The Human Drift, called for the establishment of an ideal society to be created by The United Company “Organized for the purpose of Producing, Manufacturing, and Distributing the Necessities of Life.” Except for agricultural and other rural pursuits, all activities and all the population would be concentrated in one giant and hyper-designed mega-city, using high-tech materials and systems, to build an urban complex that Gillette called “Metropolis.” Although Gillette’s book has been regarded as part of the tradition of utopian romances like the better-known Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy, it can also be looked on as a serious, if misguided, proposal for organizing the urban world. Gillette was a tinkerer and inventor, and “Metropolis” represents his verbal working model of a new kind of city.
Title: Interface – Downstairs
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2014
Dimensions: 164 x 124 cm
Materials: 2 digital prints on 2 sheets of Forex, with digital cut-outs, painted wooden frame.
About: Exhibition views from Folklore Contemporain Exhibition ll with sculptures by Sebastien Aubry & Dimitri Broquard at SWG in Glasgow.
Title: Interface – Musashi
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2014
Dimensions: 164 x 124 cm
Materials: 2 digital prints on 2 sheets of Forex, with digital cut-outs, painted wooden frame.
Title: Interface – Il Casolare
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2014Dimensions: 164 x 124 cm
Materials: 2 digital prints on 2 sheets of Forex, with digital cut-outs, painted wooden frame.
Title: Interface – Easy Jet
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2014
Dimensions: 164 x 124 cm
Materials: 2 digital prints on 2 sheets of Forex, with digital cut-outs, painted wooden frame.
Mind Management
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2013
Size: 200 x 65 x 175 cm
Material: Stainless steel, digital print on plexiglass.
Air Gap Hold On
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2012
Material: Stainless steel, Digital print on a towel, Digital print on plastic.
Size: 117 cm x 60 x 8 cm
Air gap (plumbing)
An air gap, as it relates to the plumbing trade, is the unobstructed vertical space between the water outlet and the flood level of a fixture. A simple example is the space between a wall mounted faucet and the sink rim (this space is the air gap). Water can easily flow from the faucet into the sink, but there is no way that water can flow from the sink into the faucet without modifying the system. This arrangement will prevent any contaminants in the sink from flowing into the potable water system by siphonage and is the least expensive form of backflow prevention.
Air gap (networking)
An air gap or air wall is a security measure often taken for computers and computer networks that must be extraordinarily secure. It consists of ensuring that a secure network is physically isolated from insecure networks, such as the public Internet or an insecure local area network. Frequently the air gap is not completely literal, such as via the use of dedicated cryptographic devices that can tunnel packets over untrusted networks while avoiding packet rate or size variation. Even in this case, there is no ability for computers on opposite sides of the air gap to communicate.
Title: The Dike Story
Artist: Anne de Vries
Year: 2003
Materials: video projection on a laminated wooden sculpture
Size: 117 x 70 x 85 cm