For Sliding through the Corridors, Linda Semadeni (*1985 in Bern, lives and works in Zurich) developed a space-specific floor painting over a period of two weeks in reference to an anecdote by painter Lee Lozano. The words and phrases in the painting are based on a page from one of Lozano’s ringed Notebooks filled with sketches for painting projects, notes, and text-based works.

In the Notebooks, Lozano reproduced a conversation between herself and the curator Kasper König, to whom she attributed the phrase “You are a good painter and a nice girl!”. Lozano replied: “Wrong on both counts, I’m a very good painter and not a nice girl!” [1] It is Lozano’s revision of this statement about the quality of her painting and elusion of attribution that interests Semadeni. Semadeni’s phrases become a kind of mantra, questioning simplified readings and interpretations of feminist slogans within neoliberalism and dissolving them with repetition, stretching, and twisting into a 'bad painting'.

On the occasion of this exhibition, Berlin-based author and musician Theresa Patzschke has produced a text that is available on-site at Halle für Kunst and can also be downloaded here. 

[1] Lee Lozano, «Private Notebook Excerpts», in: Drawings, 2006

The annual program at Halle für Kunst Lüneburg e.V. is funded by the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, Sparkassenstiftung Lüneburg and Hansestadt Lüneburg. The educational program at Halle für Kunst Lüneburg e.V. is funded by the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony. The exhibition “Sliding through the Corridors” is supported by Pro Helvetia, Swiss Culture Foundation and by the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony.