Thank You For Your Cooperation: :mentalKLINIK

:mentalKLINIK play with colorful reflective surfaces, billboard type signs and rhetorical operations to explore new languages and alternative textures of pleasure. By drawing on these elements as the subject and medium of their work, the duo appears to collaborate with the capitalist project they seek to challenge.

This exhibition presents a fragment of a highly mediated world that absorbs our complex identities and relationships into flattened text and imagery. :mentalKLINIK tackles this phenomenon in hyper-realistic textual portraits that reflect and translate the individual’s preoccupation with creating their self- image. Although the titles of many works refer to individuals, including WALKING ON AIR HANDE and SIMON their materials are stark. These sculptures made of ‘coated aluminum’ and ‘thermopane glass’ reflect our highly active yet increasingly banal and often virtual public personae.