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I‘m popping vitamins like there‘s no tomorrow

Place: Clages, Cologne

Date: -

Artists: Isabella Fürnkäs, Gamze Palabiyik, Frances Scholz

Curated by: Lola Angelaki & Georg Papadopoulos

Works: Insomnia Drawings

I’m popping vitamins like there’s no tomorrow addresses corporeality in the present day and is devoted to a state of quiet discipline in contemporary life. In the works of Isabella Fürnkäs, Gamze Palabiyik, and Frances Scholz, moments of tension and repetition come together. Instead of representative images of the body, affective routines are embedded in serial structures and diverse spatial situations. The title points to practices of self-regulation and self-optimization that appear less as solutions than as byproducts of a constant pressure to function. Such rituals mark attempts to maintain con- trol. They stretch the limits of the arc that spans time, energy, attention, and presence. The exhibition asks how these attempts manifest in forms of order and exhaustion.

The exhibited works operate in a field of condensation and restraint, between precision and latent instability. Serial works, repetitions, and fragile con- structions generate states of pause, delay, and inner unrest. Silent expecta- tions do not appear as exceptions but as structuring elements of an everyday life shaped by discipline and control. Rather than making unambiguous state- ments, the exhibition unfolds an atmospheric constellation in which materi- als, scales, and rhythms encounter one another and interact. The works of the three artists open up a space in which tension is not released but sustained, and in which the unspectacular, the repetitive, and the quiet develop a sense of urgency of their own.

The exhibition title is taken from the short story Letters from L.A. in the novel The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis, in which the protagonist Anne docu- ments her move to Los Angeles — including her experiences there — in the form of letters sent to her close friend Sean in Camden, without ever receiving a reply.

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