The viewer's guidebook:

The title of our project references the guessing game known as:

Ich sehe was, was Du nicht siehsts in German
I Spy (with my little eye) in English
Veo veo – qué ves? in Spanish
Ani ro'ea/אני רואה in Hebrew

This is a universal game, where one player silently selects an object that is visible to all the participants, while the rest of the players have to look around and attempt to guess this object, based on the clues they are given. This is a game often played with children, to save them from “eating their heads o ” out of boredom.

Bringin the dynamics of this game into an art context allows us to reflect on the condition of Modern and Contemporary Art, such that art should not be understood; a condition that often brings people to feel like they are going to “eat their heads off ”. By playing this game with the Guests, we intend to make the art pieces more accessible to everyone, as well as motivate people to see art in everyday life. We invite the Audience to actively participate in a playful, physical, visual and intellectual way.

Visitors drawing
of the space:

To “eat your head o ” is exactly what happened during corona lockdown, to each of us locked into our little homes, with the feeling of “wasted time” as a common denominator for everyone. It is “at home”, the place where everything happened during the timeframe of the pandemic. Home is the place to be. That is why, with this project, we take the collective drama to a private apartment in Rixdorf, where we know our neighbors by their names, greet the baker with a familiar smile every morning, and chat with the bartender as with our confidant. Despite the many changes it has undergone and being heavily a ected by gentrification, Rixdorf is an area that preserves the atmosphere of a village thanks to the small gestures of their inhabitants.

In this group exhibition, we include artworks that have been realized during the pandemic as well as work that will be specially created for the exhibition. These artworks constitute a collection on how di erent people are navigating through the extreme emotions and processes that the changing times puts us all through: the relocation of personal boundaries, the search for orientation, guidance, safe space

and intimacy; isolation, uncertainty, distant relationships, cravings, seasonal depressions, loss... You are entering a home, a space with very concrete and limited borders, but with the interaction with the artworks, you can escape from your daily routine and expand your experience.

All kinds of artworks meet their audience in an unusual art space, our Home; where everyday living meets the sublimation of art. We bring together artists that we have encountered during our years living in Berlin; artists from all over the world who have Berlin as a common home. Glooming lights, singing teapots, a poem in the restroom, a painting of my dog, eyes on the walls, an octopus on the bed, an embroidered towel on the heater, a Kino in the room.
What is art and what is not? A curated art show in the bedroom? In the bathroom? In the kitchen, inside the fridge? Ich sehe was, was Du nicht siehst... What do you see?

What does it look like, to eat your head off ?