YOURS MINE is the title of the site-specific intervention proposed by RM in response to the particular exhibition and urban context offered by Platea.
A neon with a logo of a cat popping out of a street trash can. It is a sort of an iconic image, infantilizing street life, living day by day, being cute and tough at the same time.
There are two words blinking above and underneath the cat logo. Mine and Yours like if
they were referring to the fishbone the cat is about to snack but there’s none trying to grab it. All words, so as the drawing, are so in need for a context that one would imagine a secret narrative or storytelling behind them – instead the cat logo, mine and yours, are more like the knockoff of themselves. As if improperly used, not copyrighted and squeezed together like two different brands on the same shoe. While you stop and try to unlock the secret meaning of the image, the cat gets all the fishbone.
Text: courtesy of the artist
BIO
RM's work focuses on sexual development, sexually transmitted diseases, management strategies, and stigma. Their name (previously Real Madrid) plays with the concept of competitive spirit and its transformation into merchandise, challenging authorship and self-celebratory creative processes. Affirming their status as counterfeits emphasizes an interest in misunderstanding that has led to a problematic nickname on search engines.
Their recent exhibitions include Auto Italia, London (2023), CEC Centre d’Edition Contemporaine, Geneva (2023), Swiss Institute, New York (2022), Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (2021), Fondazione ICA Milano (2021), Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (2021), Quadriennale Roma, Rome (2021), and others. RM was awarded the Swiss Art Award in 2018 and 2023. The artists have a solo exhibition scheduled at Kunst Museum St. Gallen in the summer of 2024. RM lives and works between Geneva and Berlin.
La mostra dei RM fa parte di “FARE COLLETTIVO”, il quarto palinsesto espositivo di Platea | Palazzo Galeano. Con “FARE COLLETTIVO” Platea si propone di esplorare il fenomeno dei collettivi artistici, chiedendo agli artisti invitati le ragioni di formare collettivi e le necessità di spazi di cooperazione. Attraverso mostre, pubblicazioni ed eventi, Platea si configura come luogo di indagine, coinvolgendo il pubblico e le scuole. Le attività si svolgeranno da marzo a dicembre 2024, coinvolgendo Palazzo Galeano e Platea Projects.
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