KAY WALKOWIAK. MISFITS
FOTO WIEN & ZELLER VAN ALSMICK (AT)
15.10.2025 – 29.11.2025
Curators:
Cornelis van Almsick, Magdalena Zeller
For the exhibition Misfits, Walkowiak presents two bodies of work that reflect on the impossibility - of gravity, shapes, and decay - and on the ways images hold and disturb time. Misfits (2024) originates in the collection of the Musée national d’archéologie, d’histoire et d’art in Luxembourg, where Walkowiak selected ceramic artefacts and digitally reassembled them into “impossible” or “fictional” sculptures, defying gravity, materiality, and their original shapes, while also liberating them from the logic of the vitrine.
A different kind of (un)balance develops in The Call (2023), a short film that follows a sequence of characters picking up incessantly ringing telephones—lobster receivers in homage to Salvador Dalí’s most mischievous surrealist object. Shot in Bangkok, the film lingers on the glamour and turbulence of the city’s 1960s hotels, bars, shops, and pharmacies, shaped by waves of Western tourism, Cold War politics, and the shadow of the Vietnam War.
Text: Lorena Moreno Vera, Vienna 2025
Photos: (c) Simon Veres
A different kind of (un)balance develops in The Call (2023), a short film that follows a sequence of characters picking up incessantly ringing telephones—lobster receivers in homage to Salvador Dalí’s most mischievous surrealist object. Shot in Bangkok, the film lingers on the glamour and turbulence of the city’s 1960s hotels, bars, shops, and pharmacies, shaped by waves of Western tourism, Cold War politics, and the shadow of the Vietnam War.
Text: Lorena Moreno Vera, Vienna 2025
Photos: (c) Simon Veres