BUMm!

In the same L-shaped space, around the corner, there is a small monitor. Its ‘80s design positions this piece of technology as something from a previous evolutionary phase. Slightly yellowed by time, this ex-high-tech mini monitor sits on top of a pedestal, showing off its sculptural nature. Nándor Keszeg’s video titled Buzz! Lenin (Double Stalin) (2019), that is played on this screen, shows multiple Lenin faces moving around, shaking as if about to fall apart. As our vantage point moves around and the doubled faces shift as well, we become aware of the virtuality of this vision. The artworks discussed so far are all found in a smaller room of the gallery and present an exhibition within an exhibition where iconic images are hacked, transformed, showing how symbols can be recontextualised to become more than mementoes of history. This is a show – borrowing the word used by Margl in the statement – where utopias mix with the nostalgia for our old, discarded ideas of the future.