LUMIAR CITÉ

Sid Iandovka and Anya Tsyrlina with
Leslie Thornton and Thomas Zummer
ONCE IN A HUNDRED YEARS
27.04. – 28.07.2024

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23.04 | 19h Tunneling, artist talk by Leslie Thornton

(Maumaus, Av. António Augusto de Aguiar,148–3ºC)

27.04 | 17h Opening of the exhibition

A combined exhibition with Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg (18.05 — 28.07.2024)

© Sid Iandovka / Leslie Thornton, twins of earth, 2024, video still

once in a hundred years brings together work by Sid Iandovka and Anya Tsyrlina with that of Leslie Thornton and Thomas Zummer. Iandovka and Tsyrlina (both born in Novosibirsk, USSR) embrace and dismantle technologies and form in a peculiar meditation on the ridiculous and the sublime loitering in the dark corners of consciousness, memory, history and humanity. Thornton and Zummer are American artists, the former renowned for her pioneering contemporary media art, while Zummer is a writer and a conceptual-materialist artist.

once in a hundred years features historical and new works, including a collaborative video by Iandovka and Thornton, which explore, among other things, the unexpected affinities the artists have sensed in each other work from the beginning of their recent serendipitous encounter. The exhibition orbits around a new eponymous media work by Iandovka and Tsyrlina – a bold experiment in slow flow that allows the work to create itself on its own terms, unsteady and strange, untethered to familiar orders of mediated perception.

With an instability disguised as a story, once in a hundred years conjures a reimagined post-punk tale, a ‘story-space’ in which narrative form breaks into ephemeral songs, a eulogy for the living present, a roll call in an eerie wasteland.

A combined exhibition between Lumiar Cité and Kunsthalle Friart (Fribourg, Switzerland) once in a hundred years also engages with the vast historical and architectural differences between these two institutions.