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Unpredictable Liars Revolt

Place: HPP Architects, Düsseldorf

Date: -

Invited by: Kunstverein 701 & Düsseldorf Palermo

Artists: Isabella Fürnkäs

Curated by: Astrid Legge

Works: Unpredictable Liars Revolt

For the first 'space4art intervention', Isabella Fürnkäs, born in Tokyo in 1988, is creating a sculptural outdoor installation consisting of numerous mysteriously veiled figures, the Unpredictable Liars Revolt. With their splendidly draped fabrics, they reflect, among other things, the artist's engagement with Japanese Noh theater. Equipped with sound, the figures invite direct sensory experience and explore themes of role-playing, isolation, and interpersonal communication.

Isabella Fürnkäs studied, among other places, as a master student under Andreas Gursky at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, with Hito Steyerl at the University of the Arts in Berlin, and with Gunter Damisch at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

- Text by Astrid Legge

They are encased in epoxy, which further emphasizes the frozen character of their veiling, which is devoid of meaning and torn from the interpersonal. The sound coming from the figures, is a barely perceptible whispering, speaking and singing. As a stream of consciousness, it becomes a sensory experience to the listener and negotiates questions of role play, isolation, interpersonal communication and social co-existence.

- Text by Gilles Neiens

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