Lali Frehuling: 00:00

There is a moment that comes at the end of the night. The first light rises outside, but inside the club the music presses on. The bass syncs with the heartbeat, the body’s movements blend with other bodies, and the mind trembles between inside and outside—between the detachment indoors and the day breaking outside. The end of the party, the moment when the light pierces the darkness and darkness draws it back in, is the point of departure for Lali Fruheling’s “00:00″—a solo exhibition that looks at the end of the night as an existential state where it is impossible to tell between radiance and darkness, touch and loneliness, the party’s center and its margins.

The club allows those inside it to escape reality momentarily, to abandon the here-and-now in favor of an alternative present. The night ushers in another world, in which every movement, glance, or flash of light acquires a different meaning than it has in the world outside. Under the cover of darkness and loud music, the body is stripped of its mundane identity, and a new, temporary self takes shape. The partygoerceases to be a distinct “I,” becoming one with the experience of the club, and at its climax enters a pure sensory present. Not only does the body lose its stability, but time too floats and changes like a heartbeat—accelerating and then settling, pausing and then erupting once more. Within all of this, a space is created in which one can reimagine oneself: surrender, dissolve, and be reborn in the blink of an eye.

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