Alexandre Singh, Aude Pariset,
Christodoulos Panayiotou, Ida Ekblad

Curated by Martha Kirszenbaum

Conceived as a response to the gallery’s physical setting and name, Crime is on both sides is a group exhibition constructed in two symmetrical parts, in “stereo”. Four artists have been invited to present works in relation to a symmetrical installation, echoing the shape of the human brain and one of its main functions: memory. Traditionally, the right hemisphere of the brain is known to relate to emotions and intuitional affect, whereas the left one is supposed to express reason and scientific logic. Following the duality of this simple neurological understanding, the space of the gallery has been divided between two entities: a light room and a dark one. All of the pieces presented bear the tension of reason versus passion, while, using internal symmetries and palimpestic forms, they gravitate around the axis of the central wall.

Alexandre Singh
Assembly Instructions, The Pledge, Leah Kelly,
2011, 37 framed inkjet ultrachrome archival prints and dotted pencil lines, dimensions variable
Courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers Gallery, Berlin