Acid pop colours, green slime, cartoonish atmosphere somewhere between corporate offices and Dr.
Evil’s villain headquarters… There is a simple but not simplistic dialectic at play in VENOM VOYAGE —
a playful didacticism, almost fun, close to Brecht’s approach on theatre. In his comments on epic
theatre, Walter Benjamin suggests that the emergence of political will in an artistic environment comes
primarily from the audience’s ability to feel relaxed. It is only under these conditions that astonishment
can arise and provoke personal questioning, even engagement. In this evil pop universe, so familiar
and yet so eerie, lies a deeper intention to implement in the visitor’s mind: the idea that something is
not quite right in what they are looking at. That it’s not so simple, that it can’t be that fun — that it can’t
be true, that reality cannot be this absurd.
A Christelle Oyiri book published by KERMESSE and GATHERING on the occasion of VENOM VOYAGE, Oyiri's solo show at Glasshouse - Gathering London, on view from Jan 24 to Feb 22, 2025.
14,85x21cm
92 pages