PINKING UP, Ar/Ge Kunst, Bozen

PINKING UP is the exhibition that Ar/Ge Kunst dedicates to Atelier dell’Errore (AdE) and its most recent production, the so-called pink period (Unknown Pleasures), in which desire becomes the central driving force of the research. Desire is understood here not as lack, but as a generative force, capable of pushing form beyond itself. The latest projects evoke desire as a metamorphic, primordial, never-dominated force, the same one that infuses the creatures born of the Atelier: hybrids that arise from the need for contact, expression and emergence.
In this exhibition, desire is viewed as a vital principle: an impulse that abolishes the boundary between the human and the animal, between the self and the other. The mirrored surfaces of the collective’s new works created using the reflective material of isothermal rescue blankets, literally throw back the image of the viewer, turning the representation device on its head. The observer becomes part of the work. The exhibition takes the form of a journey into the desiring body of the group: a plural, collective body in which drawing becomes skin, error becomes wound and opening, and desire manifests itself as gesture, as presence.
One might say desire is a transindividual energy, in the sense outlined by Deleuze and Guattari: a flow that has no sense of possession but of crossover. It cannot be dominated. It is neither mine nor yours: it is what passes between us, what uses our bodies as temporary gateways. In this crossover, we recognise an original condition of creation: a work is never the expression of a subject, but the irruption of an otherness seeking form. The works featured in the exhibition at Ar/Ge Kunst are elaborations of socially unexplored desires.
The first room contains the most recent works, Marmot Pussy Punk (2026), Arakne’s Sex Toy (2026), XIPE TOTEC (2025), Porno Amorino Anubico (2025), Urechis Ero-Thanatos (2025), Amon Sinaitico (2025), Priapo Orchitico Capezzoluto (2025), and Hyper Sexy Afrodite (2025). In the second room, the video PINK! is the warmest colour (2025) revisits, in a performative key, the themes explored in the first room. Also on view are the video-work Message to Chandra (2025) and the painting The 7 Capital Vices, Lust (2016), which both run through key moments in the history of the collective.