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Following the path of an ax-wielding sex doll, through the chaos of a destroyed library, the viewer enters a new world, cast out of the realm of knowledge and abstract ideas. Part discourse on death, part haunted house, Olaf Breuning's new installation for the Swiss Institute-Contemporary Art toys with ideas of artifice and luxury, mixing aesthetic clichés, styles and attitudes. This is where the inversion sets in and shame turns to excitement...
Produced with the kind support of the Fondation Nestlé pour l'art.