"Downstairs, in the darkened basement of Capitain Petzel, a frantic monologue rattles from a disembodied mouth. "The brain!" Mouth yells, "...flickering a way like mad...quick grab on...nothing there...on somewhere else... try somewhere else..." The words keep running, chasing one another, grasping to describe something always already out of reach. A shiny bubble of saliva gathers in the corner of the mouth."
"Projected on the basement's far wall, Samuel Beckett's 'Not I' is the feverish consciousness of Capitain Petzel's group exhibition of the same name. The video documents the play's 1973 performance by Billie Whitelaw, who described it as an inescapable "inner scream." This description resonates. Though the show is curated around the instability of memory, the works instead leave me thinking about the strange entrapment of being alive, and how our twitching inner monologues cope."
A Beckett 'Not I' video in a darkened basement projects a frantic, disembodied monologue that registers as feverish inner consciousness and an "inner scream." The exhibition is organized around instability of memory but emphasizes the sensation of being trapped inside persistent, twitching inner monologues. Sound and projection bleed into adjacent works, linking the basement piece to Gina Folly's lacquered cardboard box sculptures with pressed flowers and vinyl witticisms. The boxes' coffin-like forms, thick varnish, trapped hairs, and reflective surfaces highlight preserved decay, intimate bodily detail, and fragile recollection as central themes.
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