Following
the path of an ax-wielding sex doll, through the chaos of
a destroyed library, the viewer enters a new world, cast out
of the realm of knowledge and abstract ideas. Part discourse
on death, part haunted house, Olaf Breuning's new installation
for the Swiss Institute-Contemporary Art toys with ideas of
artifice and luxury, mixing aesthetic clichés, styles and
attitudes. This is where the inversion sets in and shame
turns to excitement...
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