Gravity, Be My Friend
Accelerator presents the exhibition Gravity, Be My Friend by Pipilotti Rist. This large-scale audiovisual installation takes up one of Accelerator’s two galleries. As a visitor, you are invited to lie down on large islands of mats and immerse yourself in sound and film projected onto amorphous structures in the ceiling.
Pipilotti Rist, video still 'Gravity, Be My Friend', 2007.
About the exhibition
When the work Gravity, Be My Friend was made, Pipilotti Rist’s artistic investigations centred on how we experience the moving image when lying down. She worked with situations where, in her words, we can be ‘gentler with ourselves’. When lying down, our muscles are more relaxed, which in turn affects the way we think, see, and experience.
About Pipilotti Rist
Pipilotti Rist (b. 1962, Switzerland) is a pioneer within spatial video art. Since the mid-1980s, she has played a key role in the international art scene. Her art evolves with new technologies and is characterised by strong colours, experimental editing, and sound and image integration. Rist combines nature recordings with human elements and often uses the body as a means of expression. She explores themes of identity, perception, and power, and she sees vulnerability as a creative resource in her work, questioning people’s self-image and privileged position.
Pipilotti Rist lives and works in Zurich. She has had solo exhibitions at institutions such as MoMA New York, The Geffen Contemporary and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk; Fondazione Prada, Milan; Magasin III Museum of Contemporary Art, Stockholm, and has participated in numerous group exhibitions and biennials, including in Venice, Istanbul, Santa Fe, Shanghai and Sao Paolo.
Credits
Curator: Richard Julin
Gravity, Be My Friend was originally created for Pipilotti Rist’s first solo exhibition in Scandinavia at Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art in 2007. The work is part of the Magasin III collection.