Isabel Lewis – An Occasion

Performance

23.9 2022

Malmö

On Friday 23 September at 18 – 23, the Turbine Hall will be transformed into an oasis for all the senses. With the artist Isabel Lewis as hostess, we are invited to a performance where choreography, plants, smells and music form an organic framework for meetings with winks to both the French salons of the 1700s and contemporary club culture.

Date: 23 September

Time: 18.00-23.00

Location: Turbine hall

Tickets: No pre-booking required. Free admission.

Contact Moderna Museet Malmö: Curator Andreas Nilsson.

Photo of people and plants in exhibition room — Isabel Lewis, Rehearsals at Moderna Muset Malmö for "An Occasion", 2022 Photo: Jenny Baumgartner/Moderna Museet

Photo of room full of people — Isabel Lewis, Occasions and Other Occurrences, Dia:Chelsea, 545 West 22nd Street, New York City. © Isabel Lewis. , 2016 Photo: Don Stahl. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation

Through a dramaturgy of choreography, music and storytelling, Lewis’ “Occasions” are composed social arrangements. The artist’s work often addresses the history of the body, the relationship between mind and body, and ecological thinking. Within the occasions visitors encounter smells made in collaboration with Norwegian smell researcher and artist Sissel Tolaas and are welcomed with amuse-bouches created specifically for the occasion by a local chef. As guests we are invited to drift in and out of focused attention and sociality in this contemporary ritual of gathering.

Isabel Lewis is a Berlin-based artist and choreographer born in the Dominican Republic. She has previously presented her work at, among others, Kunsthalle in Zürich, Tate Modern in London, Dia Art Foundation in New York and Ming Contemporary Art Museum in Shanghai.