IN PLAIN SIGHT

GROUP SHOW

06.12.24
– 08.03.25

ALEXANDRA GERBER
ALTHERR WEISS
DIMITRI BÄHLER
FABIO HENDRY
GUY MELDEM
LIVIA LAUBER
MALTE VAN DER MEYDEN
MATTEO BAUER vBORNEMANN
NICOLAS ZANONI
PICCOLLI
PROFILER
SEBASTIAN KOMMER

SECOND NATURE PROJECTS
4th FLOOR, PFINGSTWEIDSTR. 31
8005 ZÜRICH

OPEN:
THURS & FRI, 14.00–18.00
AND ON APPOINTMENT
info@secondnature.ch or 079 7477463

In Plain Sight presents furniture and sculptural objects that embrace the unassuming. Drawing on concepts of appropriation, the legacy of the ready-made, and objets trouvés, these works go beyond the conceptual act of declaration to critically engage with contemporary topics such as material excess, recontextualisation, and reinterpretation.

Through playful gestures, precise interventions, and subtle provocations, the works incorporate and subvert seemingly neutral industrial components as well as discarded and surplus materials. By shifting and merging their material contexts, they uncover new aesthetic possibilities and intriguing object typologies. Here, 'sight' becomes an active process—a dialogue that continually navigates the tension between seeing, understanding, and experiencing. In John Berger’s words:, “The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.”