Paradise Rot

Curated by Zeynep Kubat

Our bodies have rested, loved, violated. They have spoken, sweated, and moved. Our warm breaths linger, turn into dew, mix into the air that feeds our house plants. The mold feasts on the wine we have lazily left around, a remembrance to our raised glasses to celebrate our existence. A desire fills the room.

Shervin/e Sheikh Rezaei and Mila Balzhieva’s works come together in a dialogue on the intimate and domestic shapes that more-than-human relationships take on a daily basis. That which dies and disintegrates brings new life, in the shape of juicy rot and whispering flowers. The body itself becomes an intimate ‘house’ for internal processes we tend to ignore. Always together with other life-forms under the same roof, our bodies speak, taste and feed on them. We make each other sick and angry, but we also heal and love together. Taking its title from the inspirational novel ‘Paradise Rot’ by Jenny Hval (2016), this duoshow is an exploration of desire in more-than-genderly and -human ways.