23. June - 25. June Gallery UNO takes part in the 48 Stunden Neukölln Festival with a group of international and local artists

The 48 Stunden Neukölln 2023 Festival theme: Play(ground) is a multifaceted, complex intersection. Play is often associated with enjoyment, recreation, self-discovery and strategy yet also, has the ability to confront challenges in ongoing times of crisis.

Paola Romoli Venturi, Rome
Nikole Huss, Chicago
Anna Wenning, Berlin
Katarzyna Bak, Rome
Prisca Baccaille, Rome
Elvira Martos, Seville

Special opening hours during
the festival:

Friday 23. June: 19.00 - 22.00
Saturday 24. June: 11.00 - 22.00
Sunday 25. June: 11.00 - 19.00

Paola Romoli Venturi

Nikole Huss

The interactive installation, VIRAL DANCE invites viewers into a setting reminiscent of school dances, roller rinks, nightclubs, karaoke bars and concert venues. Disco balls, suspended from the ceiling, spin in circles and cast reflections of lights and shadows. The lure of light is associated with childhood shadow puppets and games with flashlights. Dancing, coupled with the playful movement of light, is celebratory and an open invitation to interact with others. Upon further inspection of the installation, mirror tiles on the spheres are pierced and deconstructed to portray coronaviruses. The spread of light on surroundings ties to the transmission of viruses and the delicate “dance” of being social and safe.

Anna Wenning

Katarzyna Bak

A concept of: fragmentation of the image with overlapping effects, and illusory perception of reality. The series is inspired by the story from the book ‘Chiar di Luna’ by Guy de Maupassant, - ‘The Apparition’. The pages are torn out and told in four stages as if they were four levels of a video game. The message cannot be deciphered through a single picture. In order to be read, it needs all the pictures and therefore one must advance to the end. The non-visible part of the sheet, the verso, is transcribed and pasted on the back of the canvas. The part we see may turn out to be an illusion, like the apparition of Maupassant’s tale that leaves the protagonist in doubt as to the nature of what he thinks he has seen. The illusory nature of the vision is emphasised by small colour boxes that act as filters and represent the pixels of the digital world.

Prisca Baccaille

Elvira Martos

Holi is a playful Indian tradition that celebrates the arrival of springtime but also commemorates the pastimes of Radha and Krishna. During that brief period, a door is opened not only between castes but also between the material and actual world, and an ancient and spiritual reality thanks to the color powders festival. HOLI XX3 displayed the neighbors of Pharganj playing Holi and was painted early this year during an art residency at the Onkaf Foundation in Delhi, India. It is part of the Funambulismo Project in which each painting is an instant of tightrope walking, of an impossible balance between realities where the material and tangible and the transcendental are unfolding and coexisting simultaneously. We find ourselves at some meeting points where, thanks to traditions, spiritual masters, prayers, or intimate whispers to the divine, gaps open up and communicate both realities in the eternal quest toward the Absolute.