Lucinda Dayhew | It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Eye | 9.7.–1.8.2021

Origin: unknown 

A fruit 

With endosperm 

Liquid diamond dust 

A husk 

A little scooped flesh 

Three holes 

Two eyes and  

A mouth 

In the shape of an  

O 

Must be a fruit 

Or is it a nut? 

COCO COCO 

COCO NUT 

NUT 

It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Eye is an exhibition focussing on boundaries, societal rules, self optimisation pressures, micro level ecological anxieties, morality games, behavioural codes, achievement, and (rough) play. 

It encourages you to shift shape and succumb to the pull of rhythmic spherical objects dropped from palms into olympic pools as they swim around the globe, propelled by their currents from start to finish.  

The show will culminate with performances by Lucinda Dayhew and Mikko Kuorinki.

Lucinda Dayhew reflects upon social and environmental relations with a rhythmic bent. Her narratives become pulses that shift shape as they grapple with the conflicting ethics of daily life. They materialise as installations, performances, films and photographs, sound works, sculptures, and texts. Recent performances and exhibitions include at Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt), KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), Radialsystem (Berlin) SALTS as part of Liste (Basel), Brücke Museum, NBK, Art Berlin Contemporary (Berlin), Kunsthall Stavanger (Norway), Bielefeld Kunstverein, Galerie für Zeitgnössische Kunst (Leipzig), and BQ (Berlin). Born in Orange, Australia, she currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.  

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.  

Funded by Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe. 

Supported by the Goethe Institute Finland.