MOUCHES VOLANTES & THE MOMENT Berlin present Selin Davasse & Alicja Wysocka
THE MOMENT & MOUCHES VOLANTES present
Selin Davasse
Alicja Wysocka
Opening: Saturday, 3 May 2025, admission 3 pm,
Performance by Selin Davasse from 4 - 4:30 pm, exhibition runs until 9 May,
Visits possible by appointment via +49 176 290 161 51. Venue: Ackerstraße 173, 10115 Berlin
The semi-nomadic Berlin project space THE MOMENT (Therapy Room), initiated by artist Olga Cerkasova, invites the Cologne exhibition space MOUCHES VOLANTES - directed by Ihsan Alisan - to a first joint duo exhibition parallel to Gallery Weekend Berlin 2025.
Mouches Volantes: Selin Davasse
"She is pleasantly plump. All she wants to do is munch, munch, munch. She is insatiable."
CONSEQUENCES OF SALIVATING is a performance that hungers, crawls and slobbers - like a domesticated silkworm. In a dense web of animality, language and capital, Selin Davasse stages the tragic silkworm not only as a narrator, but as the literary form itself - as an embodied genre. In doing so, she chews up the universal, deeply unjust condition of being excluded from the fruits of one's labour.
Intended as an indirect critique of the structures of the art world, the performance also functions as a foretaste of Davasse's upcoming solo exhibition at Mouches Volantes in summer 2025, curated by Linnéa Bake and Eva Hess.
Selin Davasse (born in Ankara), lives and works in Berlin. She repurposes a wide range of textual and performative techniques to speculate on the ethics of hospitality between a bestial feminine stranger, a heterogeneous public and the institutions framing their encounter. Embodying different narrative selves—each with her own syntax, voice, gestures, and postures —she translates systems of thought into intimate and playful utterances that slip between speech and song, forming a porous and unstable relationship with the viewer.
Her performances have been presented at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024); Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (2024); Art Asia Now, Paris (2023); steirischer herbst, Graz (2023); Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan (2023); Institute for Contemporary Arts, London (2023); Art Encounters Biennial, Timișoara (2023); Kunsthalle Bratislava (2022); Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana (2022); Wiener Festwochen, Vienna (2022); MEDITERRANEA19 Young Artists Biennale, San Marino (2021); Volksbühne, Berlin (2021); KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, (2021).
THE MOMENT: Alicja Wysocka
Hide and Seek, video installation, 2024
The film follows a group of women confronted with geopolitical displacement as they share stories and dreams. Hovering between nostalgia and a vision of the future, it connects past and future through narratives and rituals. In doing so, the film focuses on community, creative resistance and the power of dreams, love and imagination - as forces shaping a sustainable future.
The Last Commune, interactive installation, since 2025
Based on somatic exercises, role play and collective storytelling, the participants developed shared visions of queer and feminist futures. The map shows multi-layered imaginations of alternative systems for care, government, economy and community life. As an ongoing, open process, the installation invites public participation.
Alicja Wysocka (born in Poland) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is concerned with alternative economic models, commons, collaborative and community-based forms of coexistence. She graduated from Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Her works have been shown at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main (2025), Jan Van Eyck Academie (2023), MMCA Korea (2023), Kunstverein Wiesen (2023), Kunstverein Wiesbaden (2021), Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart (2021), Venice Biennale of Architecture (2021), Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2020), Centre of Contemporary Art in Warsaw (2017) among others.
The Moment
Ackerstraße 173, 10115 Berlin
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