Exhibition
Loretta Fahrenholz. Trash The Musical.
26 Apr 2023 – 29 Jul 2023
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 14:00
Address
- Clayallee 174
- Berlin
Berlin - 14195
- Germany
About
Fluentum is pleased to present Trash The Musical, a solo exhibition by Loretta Fahrenholz and the last in the program series In Medias Res: Media, (Still) Moving. The works on view in Trash The Musical emerged from a two-year dialogue with Fluentum’s historically marked exhibition space. Through a site-specific series of images, an object installation as well as a new film, the exhibition interrogates historiography as performance. Trash The Musical is the most extensive new work Fahrenholz has been commissioned to make for an exhibition and her largest exhibition to date in Berlin.
The 37-minute film Trash The Musical, from which the exhibition also takes its name, emerged over the last two years in collaboration with performance artist Alicia McDaid. From Los Angeles, McDaid travels back to Philadelphia, her former hometown, to empty out her uncle's house. During the months needed to get the chaos under control, the rooms become her stage for performing musical numbers and bizarre self-presentations to post on her online platforms. Surrounded by her uncle's belongings piled up around her, she slips into the roles of celebrities and movie characters and engages her followers with makeup tutorials, TikTok dances, and social criticism. Assembled into a wild post-cinematic collage by Fahrenholz, McDaid's performances are a radical exploration of personal anxieties and questions of aging, unfulfilled dreams, ghosting, and the difference between art and trash.
The works Once Upon a Time in Enemy-Occupied France and i make mistakes just to learn who i am are a continuation of Fahrenholz's interest in the processes of digital imagery.
Trash The Musical is the third and final exhibition to take place as part of the program series In Medias Res: Media, (Still) Moving (2021–2023). This series consists of new commissions, group and solo exhibitions, and a multi-part publication series that focus on the methods and processes of remembering and storytelling in moving image works. The building of Fluentum serves as the starting point of this project, along with its historical, political, and discursive layers. In Medias Res: Media, (Still) Moving is curated by Dennis Brzek and Junia Thiede.