SECONDroom is an artist-run off-space which organizes one day exhibitions. Happy Hospitality was an exhibition given shape by the instalment of artworks and turned exhibition making itself into performance. We explore the concept of the "in-between", and especially in our Zwischenland-schaften series delve into these overlooked, yet essential spaces—whether between urban and rural, public and private, or the visible and hidden.
The transient, experimental format of "Happy Hospitality" offers the perfect platform to further this exploration, transforming these fleeting, liminal spaces into something tangible. Here, we bring these themes into focus in a setting where the boundaries between art, space, and performance blur together seamlessly.
After we enter the gallery space Christophe Flore, initiator behind the happening, welcomes us and shares instructions.
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01-> Pick a frame from the already installed frames.
02-> Frame the work you have taken along
03-> Re-install the work you framed
04-> Register your participation (Name/ Title/ Description)
05-> Join for drinks at the bar and support the initiative
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We made a work especially for this occasion.
Chris Dercon, a Belgian art historian, curator, and museum director wrote in Brussels-based contemporary art magazine Glean that the most common feature between artists living today is self-censorship. For this work, we copied and hand-scratched a real estate agent's brochure and combined it with the sign of a trash bag that we, where we live, see every time when we take out the trash. It is a work on paper on which we first applied latex before starting to draw on top of it. This effects in stretched and stressed lines. In our work we have always used self-censorship as a gesture to express our precarious position.
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