Carsten Höller
Turn, Fly, Fall, Fly
February 14 – March 29, 2025
“Reason has left us, and we tumble around in a delirious state. Doubt is beautiful, says Höller, but delirium becomes pathological. Höller’s works in Turn, Fly, Fall, Fly both create and treat delirious conditions of the mind, and if I know Höller well, creating a cause and annihilating it simultaneously is exactly what he is after”, says Baldo Hauser.
In Fly On Amanita (2025), a housefly feeds on a fly agaric mushroom-milk-sugar mixture, gets intoxicated for a while, recovers, gets on its feet again, and takes off.
Single-channel 4K video, 16:9, color, sound
Duration: 04:42 min
3 ex + 1 AP
Front: Pill Clock (Red and White Pills) (2015) has an aperture in the ceiling emitting a pill composed of a red and white part into a growing pile, every three seconds. This is the time roughly perceived as the “present”. You may take one if you want.
variable dimensions
Drop mechanism: 34 x 40 x 52 cm
Gelatine capsules, mechanical drop mechanism, control unit, acrylic box, water dispenser
unique
Back: One Minute of Doubt (1999)
Pill Clock (Red and White Pills) (2015)
Week 1
Pill Clock (Red and White Pills) (2015)
Week 2
Pill Clock (Red and White Pills) (2015)
Week 3
Pill Clock (Red and White Pills) (2015)
Week 4
Pill Clock (Red and White Pills) (2015)
Week 5
Pill Clock (Red and White Pills) (2015)
Week 6
Spinning Amanita (2025) is a naturalistic, life-sized replica of a fly agaric mushroom made in painted metal. It spins around it’s own axis, driven by a solar-powered motor attached underneath. The sculpture can be installed in a garden or brought into the forest with the motor hidden in the soil, as if the mushroom has grown there naturally.
Life-sized fly agaric mushroom replica in painted stainless steel, stainless steel housing motor, cables, Li-ion battery, charge and discharge controllers, control box in steel (on/off, speed), two solar panels (variable according to sun exposure)
Variable dimensions
Motor with Fly agaric: 62 x 18.2 x 18.2 cm
unique
Solar panels: see image below.
