NINA STAEHLI
Smart phone, head phones, Facebook, Netflix, Snapchat, Twitter, Whatsapp, TikTok, Youtube…it just happened.
It has nestled into every and the farthest corner of how we think, feel and act. Loneliness has come to stay and has become the solitary confinement of individualization. What was still positively understood as a melancholic, melancholy withdrawal during the time of the Enlightenment has, since industrialization, developed into a social norm deviation with wide open doors to depression, addictive behavior, alcohol and drug addiction. This seclusion from other fellow human beings is underlaid with so much glamour and entertainment that we hardly notice and can classify the inner dying of our communicative, interpersonal abilities. But we already anticipate the inner tragedy, with the associated feelings of emptiness.
In the interior, Nina Staehli shows her BIG Heads films in small film boxes, and in the exterior of the KCAC building, BIG Head photographs are exhibited above the huge windows. The traditional representation of art is dissolved by the integration of the exterior space.
