Monday mayhem à la Slovenian artist group IRWIN, whose multidisciplinary work engages “extensively with the art history of Europe,” their website explains. “In particular with the ambivalent inheritance of the historical avant-garde and its totalitarian successors”, and the dialogue between the two. This image was captured at the opening of their 1997 exhibition at CCA, Ujazdowsky Castle in Warsaw, whereby they hung a number of their own paintings on the ceiling and suspended themselves below them—to discombobulating effect. After the opening, the live members were replaced by dummies for the rest of the show’s duration.
