Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg

Sid Iandovka / Anya Tsyrlina, with Leslie Thornton & Thomas Zummer

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Iandovka/Tsyrlina, once in a hundred years (detail), 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artists and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg

A combined exhibition between Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg and Lumiar Cité, Lisbon

Iandovka and Tsyrlina have come together with maverick American artists, Leslie Thornton and Thomas Zummer, for their first institutional show once in a hundred years.

At Friart, the installation is conceived as a cinematic wasteland in the wake of artificial intelligence. With an instability in the guise of story-telling, it conjures a reimagined ‘story-space’ in which narrative form breaks into ephemeral song, a eulogy for the living present.

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Installation view, Thomas Zummer, Drawing of a photograph of ‘SIG’, study for the series Portraits of Robots
, 2001-2024; Drawing of a photograph of ‘Umatron’, study for the series Portraits of Robots, 2001-2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg

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Sid Iandovka, Vitrine - drawings, n/a. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg

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Sid Iandovka, untitled, n/a. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg

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Iandovka / Tsyrlina, escape goat, 2020. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artists and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg

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Exhibition view, once in a hundred years, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg

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Iandovka/Tsyrlina, once in a hundred years (detail), 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artists and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg

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Iandovka/Tsyrlina, once in a hundred years (detail), 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artists and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg

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Iandovka / Tsyrlina, colder, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artists and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg

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Iandovka/Thornton, twin of earth, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artists and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg

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Exhibition view, once in a hundred years, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg

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Iandovka/Tsyrlina and Thornton, memory/beloved, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artists and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg

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Leslie Thornton, Philosophers Walk on the Sublime, 2014. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg

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Installation view, once in a hundred years, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg