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Jane Fonda
Oscar Enberg, Barbara Kapusta, Sydney Shen, invited by Franziska Sophie Wildförster
November 10 — December 5, 2018


Jane Fonda, exhibition view, Pina, 2018
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Jane Fonda, exhibition view, Pina, 2018
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Jane Fonda, exhibition view, Pina, 2018
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Barbara Kapusta, Player, 2018, Porcelain, mandarin pigment, polished waxed steel
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Barbara Kapusta, Sleeper, 2018, Clay, cherry red pigment, polished waxed steel
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Jane Fonda, exhibition view, Pina, 2018
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Jane Fonda, exhibition view, Pina, 2018
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Oscar Enberg, imperial bric-a-brac (Rushton mimic and Anri mimic), 2018, Acrylic and enamel on cast epoxy resin, assorted fabrics, sheep wool and horsehair filling, vinyl, felt and cowry shell waistcoat, ribbon, safety pin, painted and stained carved linden, brass, steel
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Oscar Enberg, imperial bric-a-brac (Rushton mimic and Anri mimic), 2018, Acrylic and enamel on cast epoxy resin, assorted fabrics, sheep wool and horsehair filling, vinyl, felt and cowry shell waistcoat, ribbon, safety pin, painted and stained carved linden, brass, steel
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Oscar Enberg, imperial bric-a-brac (Rushton mimic and Anri mimic), 2018, Acrylic and enamel on cast epoxy resin, assorted fabrics, sheep wool and horsehair filling, vinyl, felt and cowry shell waistcoat, ribbon, safety pin, painted and stained carved linden, brass, steel
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Jane Fonda, exhibition view, Pina, 2018
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Sydney Shen, My Corpse Burns, And The Fire is Sweet, 2017, 3d-printed plastic flyswatter
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Sydney Shen, Peccantum me quotidie (Everyday I Sin), 2017, 3d-printed plastic flyswatter
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Sydney Shen, I Want My Scream to Count, 2017, 3d-printed plastic flyswatter
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Jane Fonda, exhibition view, Pina, 2018
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Oscar Enberg, domestic hygiene or the contented cuckold, 2018, Damascus steel, deer antler, sterling silver fixtures, stain and handmade lace
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Sydney Shen, Urine Sample Reed Diffuser Set, Glass urinal, white vinegar, black peppercorn, eucalyptus, lavender, star anise, rosemary oil, wormwood oil, garlic oil, clove oil
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In his 2016 documentary “Hypernormalisation”, the British filmmaker Adam Curtis turns to Jane Fonda and the start of a “new revolution” she initiated in the mid 80’s: workout videos as a retreat to the body in the face of growing and inconsumable global complexities. The concept of reality had become something that was manipulated and handled, in an effort to manage perception. The body and self, however, could still be controlled.

The ties between power and the individual are anchored now in the psychology and affect, in the dreams and imagination of the self. The disciplinary society, up until the beginning of the 20th century, was built on enclosed environments of family, school, prison, hospital, factory to ensure productivity in space-time. It succeeded the society of sovereignty, ruling death rather than to manage, optimize, and increase life. As today it becomes increasingly hard to understand how the world is governed and presented to us, the deregulated control society has introduced a new handling of concepts of life and death, alienation and deeper reality, body and agency through individualism, competition and self-optimization.

The works by Oscar Enberg, Barbara Kapusta and Sydney Shen are gathered under the motif of what Mark Fisher proposes as the weird and the eerie: modi of fiction and experience located in fiction, film, and, suggested here, in art works. The weird and the eerie bring a charged strangeness to a place, unsettling the propriety and property lines that delimit a zone of activity or knowledge with “that which does not belong”. This outside cannot be made familiar (different to Freud’s notion of the uncanny), but to the contrary, makes it, as Fisher claims, possible to see the inside from the outside and to denaturalize relationships between bodies and their environments.
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Oscar Enberg (b. 1988, Christchurch, NZ) lives and works in Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions were held at Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Artspace, Auckland. Recent group exhibitions took place at Kunstverein München, S.M.A.K in Gent, Belgium, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, Centre Pompidou, Paris. Enberg recently completed the Künstlerhaus Bethanien artist-in-residence programme in Berlin. Last year he was awarded the ars viva 2018 prize. In September this year Enberg conducted a residency at Fogo Island Arts, Fogo Island.

Barbara Kapusta (b. 1983, Vienna) lives and work in Vienna. Her objects, films and text-based works have recently been shown in, among others, Gianni Manhattan, VIS, Hamburg, Ashley Berlin, Berlin, and group exhibitions at Vice Versa: Our Earth is Their Moon, Our Moon is Their Earth, KUP, Athens, 21er Haus, Kunsthalle Wien, Scriptings, Berlin, Beautiful Gallery, Chicago and mumok cinema, Vienna. Her new publication The 8 and the Fist was published 2017 by Gianni Manhattan.

Sydney Shen (b. 1989, New York) lives and works in New York. She held solo and duo exhibitions at Hotel Art Pavilion, New York City, Springsteen, Baltimore; Motel, Brooklyn, Interstate Projects in Brooklyn and has been a part of group exhibitions at venues including Aike Dellarco, Shanghai, Lock-Up International, Frankfurt; Springsteen, Baltimore; and KnowMoreGames, Brooklyn, New Galerie (Paris). Shen is the coauthor of Perfume Area, a book of prose published by Ambient Works.

Jane Fonda, exhibition view, Pina, 2018
Jane Fonda, exhibition view, Pina, 2018
Jane Fonda, exhibition view, Pina, 2018
Jane Fonda, exhibition view, Pina, 2018
Jane Fonda, exhibition view, Pina, 2018
Jane Fonda, exhibition view, Pina, 2018
Barbara Kapusta, Player, 2018, Porcelain, mandarin pigment, polished waxed steel
Barbara Kapusta, Player, 2018, Porcelain, mandarin pigment, polished waxed steel
Barbara Kapusta, Sleeper, 2018, Clay, cherry red pigment, polished waxed steel
Barbara Kapusta, Sleeper, 2018, Clay, cherry red pigment, polished waxed steel
Jane Fonda, exhibition view, Pina, 2018
Jane Fonda, exhibition view, Pina, 2018
Jane Fonda, exhibition view, Pina, 2018
Jane Fonda, exhibition view, Pina, 2018
Oscar Enberg, imperial bric-a-brac (Rushton mimic and Anri mimic), 2018, Acrylic and enamel on cast epoxy resin, assorted fabrics, sheep wool and horsehair filling, vinyl, felt and cowry shell waistcoat, ribbon, safety pin, painted and stained carved linden, brass, steel
Oscar Enberg, imperial bric-a-brac (Rushton mimic and Anri mimic), 2018, Acrylic and enamel on cast epoxy resin, assorted fabrics, sheep wool and horsehair filling, vinyl, felt and cowry shell waistcoat, ribbon, safety pin, painted and stained carved linden, brass, steel
Oscar Enberg, imperial bric-a-brac (Rushton mimic and Anri mimic), 2018, Acrylic and enamel on cast epoxy resin, assorted fabrics, sheep wool and horsehair filling, vinyl, felt and cowry shell waistcoat, ribbon, safety pin, painted and stained carved linden, brass, steel
Oscar Enberg, imperial bric-a-brac (Rushton mimic and Anri mimic), 2018, Acrylic and enamel on cast epoxy resin, assorted fabrics, sheep wool and horsehair filling, vinyl, felt and cowry shell waistcoat, ribbon, safety pin, painted and stained carved linden, brass, steel
Oscar Enberg, imperial bric-a-brac (Rushton mimic and Anri mimic), 2018, Acrylic and enamel on cast epoxy resin, assorted fabrics, sheep wool and horsehair filling, vinyl, felt and cowry shell waistcoat, ribbon, safety pin, painted and stained carved linden, brass, steel
Oscar Enberg, imperial bric-a-brac (Rushton mimic and Anri mimic), 2018, Acrylic and enamel on cast epoxy resin, assorted fabrics, sheep wool and horsehair filling, vinyl, felt and cowry shell waistcoat, ribbon, safety pin, painted and stained carved linden, brass, steel
Jane Fonda, exhibition view, Pina, 2018
Jane Fonda, exhibition view, Pina, 2018
Sydney Shen, My Corpse Burns, And The Fire is Sweet, 2017, 3d-printed plastic flyswatter
Sydney Shen, My Corpse Burns, And The Fire is Sweet, 2017, 3d-printed plastic flyswatter
Sydney Shen, Peccantum me quotidie (Everyday I Sin), 2017, 3d-printed plastic flyswatter
Sydney Shen, Peccantum me quotidie (Everyday I Sin), 2017, 3d-printed plastic flyswatter
Sydney Shen, I Want My Scream to Count, 2017, 3d-printed plastic flyswatter
Sydney Shen, I Want My Scream to Count, 2017, 3d-printed plastic flyswatter
Jane Fonda, exhibition view, Pina, 2018
Jane Fonda, exhibition view, Pina, 2018
Oscar Enberg, domestic hygiene or the contented cuckold, 2018, Damascus steel, deer antler, sterling silver fixtures, stain and handmade lace
Oscar Enberg, domestic hygiene or the contented cuckold, 2018, Damascus steel, deer antler, sterling silver fixtures, stain and handmade lace
Sydney Shen, Urine Sample Reed Diffuser Set, Glass urinal, white vinegar, black peppercorn, eucalyptus, lavender, star anise, rosemary oil, wormwood oil, garlic oil, clove oil
Sydney Shen, Urine Sample Reed Diffuser Set, Glass urinal, white vinegar, black peppercorn, eucalyptus, lavender, star anise, rosemary oil, wormwood oil, garlic oil, clove oil

Photography: Maximilian Anelli-Monti, courtesy the artists and Pina