Strategies of Deception, 2012
Site-specific installation, comprising Exit-Wall and its Collateral Damage
“Cécile Colle}{Ralf Nuhn’s solo show Strategies of Deception at Tenderpixel Gallery, London is composed as an experiment to critically take stock of their artistic activity. The exhibition pivots around the large modular sculpture Exit-Wall (2010), set up within the upper gallery as both a private spatial division and public beacon. The balance of the exhibition is an exhaustive attempt to utilise the considerable amount of surplus materials and energy produced in creating Exit-Wall, posing a question of whether art creation truly allows us to gain critical distance from the materialism and growth-addiction of capitalist society. These varied remains, entitled Collateral Damage, are set up in the lower gallery and the gallery window, and ask if it is possible to resolve the inherent contradictions between art's material and symbolic value.” (excerpt from the exhibition’s press release)