As a teenager, Berlin denizen Ariel Schlessinger practiced train-hopping in California and developed a taste for the improper use of objects.
Reverse Engineering presents a car full of gas – not petrol, but Calor Gas canisters, installed in the front seat like crash-test dummies in a Ballardian fantasy.
Like J. G. Ballard, Schlesinger subverts the everyday by accessing its hidden features, and tweaking them to exhibit the logic of irrationality that controls them.
ARIEL SCHLESINGER – REVERSE ENGINEERING | Through June 5