Angela Bulloch
May 3 - July 26, 2025 | Mehdi Chouakri, Charlottenburg
At the heart of the intuitive and almost experimental collaboration between Sylvie Fleury and Angela Bulloch—now brought together in the exhibition THE ART OF SURVIVAL / BABY DOLL SALOON in Charlottenburg—are a series of firework performances the artists staged in London (1993), Dijon (1994), and Berlin (1999). Rather than bursting into color across the sky, the fireworks in these works seemed to explode within the space itself. Soot marks left behind on white walls bore witness to the pyrotechnic interventions. These attacks on the interior—long symbolically charged as the realm of the domestic and confined— can be read as a casual yet sharp critique of a visual tradition that, for centuries, has placed women within enclosed, private settings: from Vermeer’s The Lacemaker (c. 1670), to the impressionist paintings of Berthe Morisot, to Edgar Degas’ Woman Ironing (1887). along with focused group presentations of painting, sculpture, photography, and ceramics.