"4ll 0v3r th3 pl4c3" at the ACC gallery in Weimar brings together works from 9 years of collaboration between Miiel Ferráez (DAI, 2021) and Clara Winter (DAI, 2021). It is a compilation of very personal projects in which the two act in front of and behind the camera, as well as collaborations with friends and allies to whom they feel close. Their countries of origin, Germany and Mexico, often serve as a starting point to their explorations of global power structures and cultural relations. In their half-documentary, half-fictional performative documentations, Winter and Ferràez offer themselves as a mold and embody a critical examination of the continuation of colonial gestures. They focus on exoticisation and extractivist (art) practices, as well as on the exchange rates and market positions of countries like Germany, which profit from their colonial and industrial power, imposing economic and market restrictions in recovering countries.
4ll0v3rth3pl4c3 is not only a celebration of disorder and chaos,,, but a research into the structures that emerge from resistance, defiance and un acceptance of the expected. Arranged in a labyrinth of film-set-like spaces, different worlds, as well as as opinions, are brought together both thematically and in their installation form. From the hotel room to a narrow side alley, from the white-cube gallery to the club, from the street market to the church. What begins as a small palm hut opens up to display a world built on inequality and invites the viewer to experience these spaces through their own role, the part they play within these structures.
In the end, it all comes from a wish to question those who, deep in the entrails of power and hegemony, believe they have a right to peace and quiet in a loud, chaotic and violent world.
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