“Anus Horribilis” is the primary museum exhibition of the artist duo RM (previously Actual Madrid), which can characteristic works particularly created for the LOK, the Kunstmuseum St.Gallen’s second venue. The apply of this artist collective, based in 2015 in Geneva, is located on the intersection of sexuality, consumption, and identification. With earlier large-scale sculptures and installations, RM has investigated social and political reactions to stigmatized sexually transmitted ailments and infections. For “Anus Horribilis” the duo is now taking this thematic exploration additional, proper as much as the final stigma—that of dying.

Melanie Bühler, Senior Curator Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, on RM: “RM is likely one of the most fascinating Swiss artists of their era. RM was initially named Actual Madrid, after the profitable mega soccer membership, arguably one of many best-known manufacturers on this planet. The selection of this title was motivated by an curiosity in how data spreads and what it’d imply for an artist collective to be untraceable on the web underneath this title. They needed to shorten the title for authorized causes—Actual Madrid turned RM—however an curiosity in transmission, virality and the parasitic remains to be central to their work. RM’s apply has addressed bedbugs, AIDS, sexually transmitted ailments and drug dependancy—and now demise. In ‘Anus Horribilis’ they strategy dying as a bodily transformation through which bowel actions play a central function. As such, the exhibition can be an examination of excrement as a paradoxical cultural object that sits awkwardly between taboo, liminal expertise and embarrassment. Social stigmas and the fears related to them are sometimes beginning factors for RMs work, which is characterised by a exact formal language, pop-cultural references and humor, regardless of the gravity of the subjects addressed.”

by Kunstmuseum Sankt Gallen at LOK, St.Gallen
till November 10, 2024