Transmitter, cable, lamp
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Avocat (Espagne) and Nectarine Blanche (Espagne) have been the offer and price tags of a greengrocer in the Rue du Faubourg Saint Denis in Paris for the last 30 years.
The street is a link between two Paris: the bourgeois Paris of the central districts and the popular Paris of the northern districts. At the moment, Rue du Faubourg Saint Denis is undergoing an unmistakable gentrification and the high density of different ethnic populations is being pushed further north. For Folly, who is fascinated by the place and the direct way of communication and design of the magnetic disks, the signs address topics such as current availability, globalization and local market supply, while the back of the disks look to the future, as the daily offer for the next day is written on them.
Another work, Spooky, 2017, consists of a series of seven love songs whose texts were translated via transmitter into a Morse code that is made readable by the attached lights.
Song text:
Spooky
Lydia Lunch
In the cool of the evening
When everything is getting kinda groovy
I call you up and ask you
If you’d like to go with me and see a movie
First you say no, you’ve got some plans for the night
Then you stop and say “alright”
Love is kinda crazy with a spooky little boy like you
You always keep me guessing
I never seem to know what you are thinking
And if a girl looks at you
It’s for sure your little eye will be a-winking
I get confused ’cause I don’t know where I stand
And then you smile and hold my hand
Love is kinda crazy with a spooky little boy like you
Spooky
Maybe someday you’ll decide to stop these games
That you’ve been playing
I’m gonna tell you all the things my heart’s
Been dying to be saying
Just like a ghost you’ve been haunting my dreams
So I proposed on Halloween
Love is kinda crazy with a spooky little boy like you
Spooky
Gina Folly, born in Zurich in 1983, studied at the ZHDK in Zurich and lives in Paris and Basel. She is co-founder of the Zurich-based Taylor Macklin exhibition space, which is now internationally active. Folly’s work has been shown at Ermes Ermes, Kunsthalle Basel, ML Artspace, Kunsthaus Glarus, SALTS, Basel, Spreez, Plymouth Rock, New Jerseyy, CentrePasquArt, Ellis King, Istituto Svizzero, Rome, among others.
