My bedroom floor is on fire

For this year’s 39th edition of the Belluard Bollwerk festival in Fribourg, we are delighted to accompany the festival with the group exhibition “My bedroom floor is on fire” with the works of Christophe Lovasoa Kauffmann (*1999, Geneva), Andrea Cindy Raemy (*1980, Fribourg), Philippa Schmitt (*1995, Mulhouse) and Anouk Yerly (*1996, Fribourg). In “My bedroom floor is on fire” the presented sculptures, soundscapes and visual works are displayed over the two exhibition spaces as a parkour of discovery. While existing for themselves and holding their own histories and narratives, the presented works suggest in their second life playful investigations of coming of age stories. The ambiguous tension between being in a one’s comfort-zone and out jumping the unknown (or very well-known) dangers of a constructed reality forms the collective spirit of the show, referring to the children game “The floor is lava”. Whilst proposing singular artistic positions and streams of thought, the works of Christophe Lovasoa Kauffmann, Andrea Cindy Raemy, Philippa Schmitt, and Anouk Yerly eventually come together as an open cycle, vacillating between self reflections and imagined selves, conditioned identities and the breaking free from it, traditions and the exploration of possible transformations towards new imaginaries. The group show “My bedroom floor is on fire” finally reflects upon the strong relationship one develops with oneself and these implosive emotions that emerge in intimate and safe spaces, giving way to the creation of fantastic worlds and other possible realities in order to confront and challenge normative and toxic systems of a still dominantly capitalist and patriarchal reality. Throughout the show, one might feel tempted to follow the white rabbit down the rabbit hole, to manipulate or modulate, to play and to get lost, to recall downtrodden emotions or escape into a meta world of imagery, to find your balance or to just run away, to transform and be transformed, to swing a rope or let it go, to sing along to “No Superstar” by Remady or to follow the choreography of a TikTok dance group, to step into the shoes of a video game character or to activate a giant glittery key ring that could have been extracted from a Y2K version of Alice in Wonderland.