Metropolis hidden
Interactive exhibition

Structures, patterns, networks: We build our own Metropolis and take our cue from the artist Sarah Morris!

Interactive response to the exhibition Sarah Morris. All Systems fail.

Metropolis hidden encourages visitors to construct their own structures, patterns and networks to create a metropolis (ancient Greek μητρόπολις mētropolis, literally ≪mother city≫). Young and young-at-heart visitors allow structures and networks to grow in all directions and form unstable equilibria that collapse again. The collapse is always followed by a new beginning.

The networks are initially independent and isolated, but over time they develop into a large whole. The pipe sections, branches and connections are the building blocks from which the Metropolis in the Creaviva is formed. With a clear plan in mind or intuitively, piece by piece, subsystems are created that make up our Metropolis in all its diversity.

With delicate manual work, the visitors create a large collective work that develops over the entire duration of the exhibition. At the drawing and painting table, various tools invite visitors to freely and playfully create their own small metropolis. A black box alternately presents photographs and video recordings of the networks created at Creaviva and a surprising, artistic and detailed structural analysis by artist Fabienne Sieger with a new perspective on the city of Bern.

Concept
Jasmin Bigler, Noëlle Bigler, Sinja Bertschi, Lorenz Fischer, Katja Lang and Fabienne Sieger

Thanks to
Creaviva would like to thank the development fund of the Berner Kantonalbank BEKB for its valuable support, ingold-biwa for its generous sponsorship of materials, Autismus Schweiz for the enriching collaboration and especially the artist Fabienne Sieger, who also accompanied us as a consultant on the autism spectrum.