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Tim Etchells

(Sheffield)

Red Sky at night

Red Sky at Night is an installation that changes through the course of its exhibition. Crude cardboard letters spelling the word H-O-P-E hang from four brightly coloured helium balloons installed against the ceiling. Each night, the balloons deflate and fall to the ground, each morning a new set is installed, spelling out the same optimistic message. 

As the days go by the resonance of the folorn message or sign of HOPE gets redrawn – the HOPE trapped up at the ceiling presides over an increasingly absurd pile of failed, deflated and trapped HOPES.

Installation
Swiss Premiere
Ancienne Gare
  • Thu 26.5. 12:00 - Sat 2.7. 12:00
  • Free
Credits

Jury: Hans Bryssinck, Sally De Kunst, Gabrielle Gawrysiak, Florian Malzacher, Oliver Schmid, Elke Van Campenhout, René Walker, Annina Zimmerman

  • Avec le soutien de / Mit freundlicher Unterstützung von: Pour-cent culturel Migros..

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© Tim Etchells