Kiki Furlan: Living Rooms

Please join us for the openings of Living Rooms, Kiki Furlan’s first solo show with the gallery, and Morgane Billuart at KINO MANHATTAN on Thursday April 25, 2024 from 6-9 pm.

“In Kiki Furlan’s Living Rooms, coin-operated attractions recalled and re-sourced from shopping malls, or other familiar non-sites, like airports, grocery stores, or gas stations are returned from memory’s mist to the exhibition space, dislocated from their ‘proper’ place, function, and use-value, into a context that asks us to re-consider such insights. To twist the meaning of the ride’s inner meaning in the pure fun of homonymic association, viewers are drawn inside the site that grants new life to what’s in sight—on view: namely, the mind, as scripted site, per the attraction. And so, as a kind of “living” room, a space alive with all kinds of uncanny forms, reconstituted from the “real” as material thoughts, in desire’s momentum, the force of the imagination. “ (Sabrina Tarasoff)

Morgane Billuart’s The Trade will open at the same time at KINO MANHATTAN.

Kalla, a young artist, is eager to gain visibility and recognition for her work. When she is invited to join an online trading forum, she jumps at the chance to trade watch time to gain social media exposure. However, as she begins to watch and consume content on the
server, Kalla quickly realizes that this high-pressure environment is more demanding than
she thought.

Script and artistic direction by Morgane Billuart, animation by Martin Eichler, rigged animation by Viktor Eichler, animation, and art support direction by Lauren Fong, and sound mixing by Rick Haring.