PIPILOTTI RIST: WORRY WILL VANISH │ Hauser & Wirth, London → 10 January 2015

Stone Skyscraper, 2014. Video object; miniturized skyscraper carved from sandstone with a video projected on the facades, silent. 103 x 30 x 26.6 cm / 40 1/2 x 11 3/4 x 10 1/2 in

Overlapping Shadow Oversleeping, 2014. Video installation; one-channel projection on a Spathiphyllum, plant pot, silent. Dimensions variable

Worry Will Vanish Horizon (video still), 2014. Audio video installation

Worry Will Vanish Horizon (video still), 2014. Video audio installation

‘Worry Will Vanish’. © Pipilotti Rist. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine, New York. Photo: Alex Delfanne

“Hâzr n Virt z plizd t anâns tu xibišnz v ny vidiowrcs bî Pipiloti Rišt, unveild in paṛlel prezntešnz acrs its Lundn n Suṃset gaḷriz.

Fr hr Lundn xibišn, Wuri Wl Vaniš, Rišt hz trnsfwmd ɖ gaḷri intu a fŭli imrsv, senṣri invîrnmnt. Pṛjctd agnst tu wōlz, Wuri Wl Vaniš Hrîzn (2014) z a jrni insd ɖ hymn bodi, bêst on a ʈrīdimnšnl animešn. Rišt dlîts in patnz crietd bî mnipyletñ crīsz v scin, c̣resñ, pšñ n pŭlñ t dpict ɖ vẹrid txčr v hymn fleš. Ɖz cwpwrı̣l imijz piriodcli ovrlap wɖ clôsup fragmnts fṛm nêčr az Rišt blrz ɖ bândriz btwn ɖ slf n ōganic strucčrz. Š xplorz ɖ rlešnšp btwn intrnl n xtrnl, hâ indivijlz r lnct t ɖ tišuz n bludveslz v uɖr ōġnizmz, n in so dwñ, š sjsts rlešnšps wɖ ɖ ynivrs at lj.

Rišt’s vidiôfŭtij apirz az a c̣lîḍscopic riimajinñ v riaḷti, az glisnñ spîdrwebz n dỳ-lêst fôliij mrj wɖ îbwlz n elboz in a barāj v seductv imijri. Rišt hz c̣laḅretd wɖ ātist n myzišn Andrz Ggizbrg on ɖ sând ɖt acumṗniz ɖ vidio so ɖt Wuri Wl Vaniš Hrîzn imrjz az a joys seḷbrešn v ōdio, txčr n culr.

Wuri Wl Vaniš z a pātisipeṭri xpirı̣ns; gaḷrīvizitrz r promtd t rmuv ɖer šuz bfr entrñ ɖ mn insṭlešn, n hns t rlis sm v ɖ sošl inhibišnz ɖt xist in ɖ wrld âtsd. Upn iniṣ̌li entrñ ɖ gaḷrīspês, ɖ vywr z cnfruntd wɖ a denimcrtn haññ fṛm ɖ sīlñ. Ɖ crtn xtndz ɖ leñʈ v ɖ sâʈ wōl, n intîsz ɖ vywr t xplor ɖ ẹria bynd ɖs fizicl n sîc̣lojicl barı̣r. Bî leyñ pluš cāṗt n dūvez on ɖ flor v hr insṭlešn, Rišt invîts ɖ vywr t lî dân n xpirı̣ns ɖ wrc fṛm a ny pspctv, in ẇč ɖ ynivrs apirz inlājd. Ɖ vywr muvñ ʈru ɖ imij n ɖ pṛjẋn v ɖer ôn šado ontu ɖ gaḷrīwōl srvz t inhans ɖ inṭraẋn btwn ɖ bodi n its invîrnmnt.

Rišt drwz on prínṣplz v Ōṭjenic Trênñ t fsilitet a prôses v rīlaxešn, a tecnīc dveḷpt in 1932 bî ɖ Jrṃn sîcaytrist Yhaniz Hînrih Šlts. Ōṭjenic Trênñ involvz a rpitd set v vižlîzešnz, practist in rec̣mndd posčrz (includñ layñ dân), ẇč r intndd t alīviet stres. Īvn ɖ ajreṭri tôn v ɖ xibišn’z tîtl hz a cāmñ ifct on ɖ vywr, lulñ ɖm intu a stêt ẇr ɖe wl b rsptv t ny îdiyz.

A secnd, sml-scêl vidioinsṭlešn, Stôn Scîscrêpr (2014) z pzišnd âtsd ɖ denimcrtn. It z a hymn-scêl strucčr mild fṛm sandstôn wɖ a vidio pṛjctd on ɖ fsād.

Abt ɖ Ātist

Pipiloti Rišt wz born in Grabz in ɖ Swis Rîn Vali in 1962. Sns imrjñ on ɖ inṭnašnl ātsìn in ɖ mid-1980z n 1990z wɖ fems snglčanl vidioz sč az I’m Nt Ɖ Grl Hu Misz Mč (1986) n Piclpwno (1992), Rišt hz hd nymṛs sôlo n grūp xibišnz n z wn v ɖ most seḷbretd vidioātists wrcñ tde. In 2009 Rišt wz awōdd ɖ Joan Miró Prîz fr hr wîdrenjñ crietv actiṿti n hr âtstandñ contribyšn t ɖ cuṛnt ātistc sìn bî Fundació Joan Miró, Bāṣlona, Spên.

Fr hr frst fīčrfilm, Peprminta (2009), in 2009 Rišt wz awōdd ɖ Prezidnt v ɖ Jri’z Xtrōdnri Awōd at Spên’z 6^ʈ Svil Yṛpiyn Filmfestivl n in 2010 š rsivd ɖ Cutñej Awōd bî Mîami Inṭnašnl Yṛpiyn Filmfestivl. In 2012, Rišt wz awōdd ɖ Hāpr’z Bzar Āt Čîna prîz fr ‘Bst Ātist’ n in Jūn 2013, š wz awōdd ɖ Zŭrih Festivlprîz 2013. Rīsnt sôlo xibišnz includ Jentl Wev in Yr Îfluid, Tîmz Myziym in Ĝañžu, Čîna (2013); Pipiloti Rišt. A la belle étoile, Henri Ātgaḷri, Ynivrṣti v Wošñtn, Siatl WA (2012); Pipiloti Rišt – Spir t hevn!, LEEUM Samsŭñ Myziym v Āt, Sôl, C̣rīa; Blutbetriebene Kameras und qellende Räume, Kunstmuseum St. Gaḷn, Switṣḷnd (2012); Îbwl Msāž, Hêẉd Gaḷri, Lundn, Ñgḷnd (2011), ẇč travld t Kunsthalle Mannheim, Manhîm, Jrṃni (2012); Parasimpatico, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Cinema Manzoni, Milan, Iṭli (2011); Pipiloti Rišt. Partit amistós – sentiments electrónics, Fundació Joan Miró & Centre Cultura Caixa Girona Fontana d’Or, Bāṣlona / Žirona, Spên (2010); Elixir – Ɖ vidioōġnizm v Pipiloti Rišt, Myziym Boijmans Van Beuningen, Roṭdam, Neɖrḷndz (2009); Por Yr Bodi Ât (7354 Kbc Mītrz), MvMĀ, Ny Ywc NY (2008) n A la belle étoile, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Frans (2007).”