Pierre Philippe Hofmann




   portrait of a landscape
   ad libitum
   > what you get is what you saw
   lieux communs
   stand by

   on time to the opening
   london notebook
   la belle image
   paintless post-painterly abstraction
   nicht schlafen
   recto-verso
   schwizerdütsch for beginners
   best price for you my friend
   grilles de validation

   time elapsed
   der rattenfänger

WHAT YOU GET IS WHAT YOU SAW in association with Mathias Domahidy, 2021

Installation detail, KIOSK (Gent, B)

When an exhibition is put together, a succession of stages follows. We work on a concept. We work on a text, bringing together ideas and quotations. We discuss the budget. Loans are obtained. We draw plans. The works are insured. We pack, we transport, we unpack. Then we watch things fall into place. Finally, we uncork the red wine and let the audience enjoy their moment of enchantment.

In this proposal, Hofmann and Domahidy imagine an exhibition that would unfold quite differently. Taking the business model of meal delivery as an example, they meticulously observe the habits of Ubereats, Deliveroo and other delivery companies and transpose their optimisation tactics to the art world. As going green and slowing down are just as much part of the trend as the economic precariousness of workers, it seemed appropriate to the duo to set up an installation for which all the necessary equipment would be transported on foot. Why shouldn't the local residents contribute a little to the cultural life?

Visitors enter a space strewn with disparate elements. On one wall, a video documents the supposed transport of these objects across the city. This is obviously fiction, but the coherence between the filmed images and the nature of the objects littering the floor suddenly casts doubt.














Ad Libitum #01 (with Mathias Domahidy), Brussels 2017