Description
The artist duo Gen Atem / Miriam Bossard challenge passers-by on the streets of Zurich with their subtle, minimalist interventions. With white chalk they draw circles on squares or around objects and they thereby transform everyday situations into extraordinary scenes. Through the mindful and at the same time radical drawing of white lines on black asphalt, they simultaneously delimit and exclude, question things or direct the gaze to the supposed nothingness.
No sooner do the observers tentatively begin to realize what is going on here than the artist duo breaks the spell again by first blurring the circles and then carefully wiping up the chalk powder so that hardly any traces remain. The dust left behind is a magical substance; charged by the subversive actions and the amazement of the participating passers-by. This magic powder is kept in an urn and transferred from Zurich to St. Gallen. There it is added to a pot of white paint with which the artist duo finally commits a paint attack on a white wall in the Museum of Emptiness.
