Rotten Days

Rotten Days is a performative work based around a selection of provocative, often ill-humoured texts by artists Vlatka Horvat and Tim Etchells, painted daily on a wall of the exhibition space. Each text is displayed for only one day before being painted over and replaced with a new one – the change orchestrated through a simple daily action/performance carried out by a member of staff of the institution presenting the work, according to the artists’ schedule.

The work – new statements and the accumulating traces of previous ones layered in a single designated area on the gallery wall – emphasizes the provisional nature of the ideas it proposes in language, drawing viewers into a direct relation with its slogans and messages, in equal measure blank, disconcerting, comical and playfully confrontational.

The images shown are from the Rotterdam version of the project, where the work was presented in the context of "The Part In The Story Where A Part Becomes A Part of Something Else" at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 2014.