Opening on Thursday January 22nd, from 6 to 9pm on the occasion of the Nuit des Bains.
An exhibition by Matthias Sohr.
“There are desires of mine at work that other people might regard as contradictory. On the one hand, my wish is not to add much to things that already exist. On the other hand, I want to author.
I consider this contradiction as constitutive of my drive to operate small changes within existing social tissues that I have access to. My coming out as an author hasn’t made as many waves as other coming outs, for instance, being gay or being an artist. It’s a history of gradual changes, not unlike queering things, myself, texts, contexts. Not adding much to things that already exist is, for example, simply presenting the names of the artists participating in the exhibition “Access All Areas” that I am putting together for Xippas Geneva. Operating small changes means making more of the ground floor of the Geneva branch of Xippas accessible to more persons with and without reduced mobility. Please note that the gallery’s restroom is not accessible to persons with reduced mobility.”
– Matthias Sohr
Matthias Sohr is an artist and cultural historian. Exhibitions and easy-to-read languages are his preferred media. For the Journal of Bureaucracy Studies, an easy-to-read journal about art and other things in life, he won the Swiss Art Award 2023 in the category “Critique Publishing Exhibition.” He is co-director of CIRCUIT Centre d’art contemporain, Lausanne.
