Oh Darling, let’s run with the turtles

Salon 75, Copenhagen. DK
23.07 – 20.08.22

Cultural Holland, 1987
Digitized commercial, lightbox,
27 x 34 cm

Pushers
Footprints, variable dimensions

Duo exhibition with Valentino Russo.

The exhibition is loosely inspired from the legacy of the renown Whole Earth Catalog originally published from 1968 to 1971. The catalog became an instant-classic among counterculture. Thanks to its environmental orientation and embodying a do-it-yourself/self-sufficiency mentality, under the slogan “access to tools”, it indexed alternative and esoteric knowledge.

Half a century later, in a world dominated by efficiency, where people and goods travel the globe relentlessly, the catalog assumes the status of an utopian vision. In a moment in which slowing down seems impossible, running with turtles becomes a strategy of resistance.

“Oh darling…” shouts an ungraspable entity, where the works instead of trying to fill the void of the exhibition space, almost amplify it. A series of footprints on the walls, a suspicious backpack and what appears to be an oddly cropped ad from the Dutch national airline KLM, are remnants of a human presence, now absent, always in transit.