Laura Trippi, exhibition brochure. But this appears to be a version interpreted by Pee Wee Herman. The installation is designed like a crazy stage set of a children's residential hospital, replete with a torture chamber lurking amidst the institutional cheer. Here, the dark encounter between the drives for sex and death is framed and buoyed up by a keen wit and a cool sense of the absurd. Laura Trippi, exhibition brochure.
Voices float up from outside the hospital enclosure, but the group gathered inside is silent.
This is painful, horrifying to watch, but there's also the sense that strange and brilliant poetry is being created.