A group art show initiated by Simon Wald-Lasowski for W139, with contributions by Aline Bouvy, Ryan Gander, Mire Lee, Serge Onnen, Julius Heinemann, Maya Brauer & Annabelle Broos, Dodi Espinosa, Kasper De Vos, Thomas van Linge, Bas de Wit, Simon Wald-Lasowski and Andrea Éva Győri.

What is your relationship to excess? Are your rituals of intoxication a means to numb yourself? Or a way to celebrate life against a collective feeling of existential dread? In the ruins of late-stage Capitalism, consumption and hedonism function as a means to escape the body — your body. You are invited to consider the beauty and horror of these daily practices.

Experience an atmosphere of all things fleshy, shiny and morally ambiguous. An abundance of colours, animatronics and visual stimuli that explore themes of digestion, bodily cravings, erotic grotesque nonsense, sex as a matrice of power and the commodification of pleasure. Minimal yet grandiose gestures challenge the monumentality of W139’s backspace with sensory, detailed work; as well as erasing whiteness to reveal hidden traces of past exhibitions.

Situated in the red light district, oozing with debauchery, W139 becomes a space to navigate these flamboyant and decadent energies, with humorous uncanny interventions.