Image by Hanayo, one the artists in "This Place Is Foreign" curated by Simon Guzylack

TI's art tour in Paris next week is jam packed with activity. I'd like to thank curator Simon Guzylack for his kind invitation to the vernissage. Dashing there straight off the plane on Saturday! More details after the jump

This Place is Foreign
Curated by Simon Guzylack
September 28, 2008 – October 5, 2008
Open every day, 13:00 – 19:00
Vernissage: September 27, 17:00

Mad Vicky’s Tea Gallery
3, rue Nicolet
75018 Paris

HANAYO (japan)
LARRYS (canada)
AUDE LEVERE (france)
MATHIEU MALOUF (canada) / HEJI SHIN (south korea)
MAXWELL SIMMER (canada)
BRENT WADDEN (canada)
NINE YAMAMOTO-MASSON (france/japan)
MICHAEL YOUNG (canada)

Mad Vicky’s Tea Gallery is proud to present This Place is Foreign, a
group exhibition of artists based in Berlin but born elsewhere. Working
with music, video, sculpture, textiles, drawings, photography, and
painting, these artists met serendipitously in Berlin and have found ways
to use the city as a background for collaboration—artistic and
recreational—in studios, galleries, bars, and discotheques. A
performance by Hanayo on October 1 at 19:00 accompanies the show.

The condition of international artists in Berlin is more science-fiction
than political drama: The works exhibited in the show recall psychedelic,
perverse, mysterious, and happy visits to unexplored regions rather than
hankerings for national identities or exotic fetishes. Selecting a context
for the works of art becomes situational, playful and participatory,
perhaps like their creation.

Through the artists’ uses of various media, the show looks at the moment
when distinctions collapse between work and play, personal and collective,
the familiar and the foreign.

www.madvickysteagallery.com
www.hanayo.com/gallery
www.brentwadden.com
www.larrys.eu