12MIDNIGHT

12MIDNIGHT

Milovan Farronato, Media Farzin, Reza Aramesh • Damiani

ISBN-10: 8862083130 · ISBN-13: 978‑8862083133 · 2015

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In March to June 2013, the artist Reza Aramesh installed 5 sculptures in 5 different nightclubs in New York, each for the duration of one month. The clubs were selected to represent a wide social spectrum of New York City, the exclusive Number 8, Bossa Nova Civic Club where drinks normally cost one dollar, the flamboyantly gay Sugarland, the arty Santos Party House, the white working class hub of The Marquis. The sculptures draw on the images of violence and conflict that we are continuously bombarded with by mass media, to the point of general indifference. Bringing these to a different arena, a different setting of daily life, the artist initiates an investigation into notions of violence and voyeurism. The title 12MIDNIGHT refers to how most executions take place at midnight as well as the nocturnal euphoria of the clubber. Presenting sculptures in boxes, viewable only through keyholes further accentuates the notions of voyeurism, and even desire, the project also references Marcel Duchamp’s Étant Donnés. More than just an exhibition catalogue the book becomes a work of art in itself. Taking the reader trough the journey of the project’s conception and inner logic.

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