Serve
May 4th to May 25th, 2019
serve: Tim Messeiller and collaborators:
Adrien Chevalley, Charlotte Stuby, Constant Bonard, Pierre Bonard, Liza Trottet, Neal Byrne-Jonson, Julien Fischer, Valentine Paley, Camille Villetard, Mathieu Barbezat, Jacques Duboux, Estelle Bourdet, Chri Frautschi, Chloé Demetriades, Estelle Spirig, Colin Pahlisch, Nicolas Pahlisch, Julia Reist, Guillaume Ehinger, Céline Burnand, Simon Desarzens, Frédéric Gabioud.
TAP is proud to present a group exhibition by artist Tim Messeiller. A tennis game begins with a service (serve). This action generates a cordial dialog between two opponents during which they will exchange shots to create an enjoyable and perennial event, or as enjoyable as a tennis match can be. Throughout a game, the players evolve in a mental and physical space, codified and regulated by norms, where their only way of communicating is through the back and forth of a ball across the court showcasing their best game to each other but more importantly, to the public.
Serve inspects the relationship of artists with labor and the creation process. Here, an artist creates artworks for other artists by interpreting their vague plans, which are also artworks. This process renders a collective exhibition, in which the executing artist imprints his permanent “touche” and other intangible notions on the final product. The roles of the actors in this contemporary art exhibition are mixed up; the norms of the artistic creation are blurred.
Same as in a tennis match, this exhibition is a rally, but transatlantic, where its final result is tinkered and unforeseeable.
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