SANDWICHis
an art collective funded in 2016 by Anna Ill, Jaehyung Park, Steph Huang,
Messua Poulin-Wolff and Nicola Guastamacchia.
Temporary and collaborative projects – research and
practice-based – constitute a core element of our work. We find in playfulness
the very critical tool to question established frames for artistic exhibition
and presentation.
SANDWICH rejects to think of the exhibition-format as
the ultimate result of artistic experimentation. In our projects, exhibitions
are themselves mediums and pretexts for the organisation of spontaneously
unrolling situations and events, providing
space for transitory and ephemeral interventions, videos,
sculptures and installations. Everything produced is site
specific, documented, dismantled, transformed and recycled within later
initiatives.
Involving other artists and groups, SANDWICH provides
space both literally, hosting other artists, and conceptually, promoting shared
moments of critical reflection. We are the result of a continuous mediation and
confrontation of discrete individual aesthetic and cultural backgrounds,
finding in the drunk intimacy of parties and urban derives crucial
expedients to promote art as a divergent, exciting, immersive and ritual process refusing straightforwardly para-political and
antagonist positions.
Weaffirm the intrinsic value of art as a
de-alienating human endeavour and commit to multi-layered
and interdisciplinary projects able to grasp – and bypass – the wider cultural and
institutional conditions surrounding contemporary artistic production.