SPORTS

Galleri Gamla Farsot

25/10- 27/10/2024

SPORTS (2024) at Galleri Gamla Farsot was a short-lived installation built from already existing broken pieces and raw clay + a video recording of the moment a wet-clay body built suspended on a string falls apart looped into infinity. 

The pieces were built in the gallery in the span of a couple days and then taken apart and mostly recycled. 

(Clay, video recording, ceramic pieces, string, ropes, bike wheel, ceiling supports)

What are sports but an opportunity for the body to get hurt! There is a saying in Polish that goes "if the goat had not been jumping, it would not have broken its leg". When Seth Rollins had that whole subplot about a lasting back injury - and that sports tape there so that Shinsuke Nakamura could aim better when he was slamming a chair on it - was that completely made up? It's more unlikely that his back is fine, to be honest, since he does the things he does. Does it even matter? If sports are fake, does it make them less Sports? What is fake? Are doped up sports fake? Suffering for the observer's sake is not an unusual craft to perform.