M+M. Thin Places. Courtesy of Helga de Alvear Gallery
M+M. Thin Places
November 30th, 2023 - February 3rd, 2024
HELGA DE ALVEAR GALLERY
Calle Doctor Fourquet, 12. Madrid. Spain
The artist duo M+M deals with the abrupt transformations and crises of recent years, pandemics and isolation, social conflicts and personal retreat. With their new film installations and photo-series they bring about a radical change of perspective, either by choosing praying mantises as the protagonists of their films or by macroscopically penetrating the materiality of the human environment. Thus, familiar places and materials become quasi "thin" or permeable to other worlds.
The heart of the exhibition is an evocative cinema installation with the 3D film Club Bunker (2023), which is shown as a world premiere in the gallery. Upstairs the visitor encounters a second stereoscopic film installation: Mad Mieter (2019) [Mad Tenant].
The two films seem to link whimsically with a sentence by the philosopher Rosi Braidotti: "The post-anthropocentric abandonment of hierarchical relations that had privileged 'man' requires a form of alienation and a radical repositioning of the subject".
M+M. Thin Places. Photo: Joaquín Cortés. Courtesy of Helga de Alvear Gallery
On the other hand, in the large central room of the gallery we come across two new photographic series. Virendicht (2022) [Virus-tight] is presented as a global installation that completely fills the walls.
M+M. Thin Places. Photo: Joaquín Cortés. Courtesy of Helga de Alvear Gallery