Chew Over is a duo show by Francesca Mussi and John Mirabel exposed in an ex-public toilet at the project space Spazio Bidet, created and curated by Thomas Ferembach. 

A chewing gum is a tooth-engraved-object, shaped and transformed to create an ever-changing shape. From another point of view, it is an object that can be bought, consumed and discarded in record time. It can acquire the meaning of what can be called “occasional mutable sculpture”, because it has a changeable and multiple semantic value. In addition, Chewing Gum placed in Spazio Bidet suggests a continuous thinking presented as a futuristic vision of the past : “Chew Over”. The term suggests a hypothetical thought flow, from which multiple memories converge.

From here, on the opposite side of the space, the work Fata Morgana (N.P.U) is placed. This big-sezed photography acts as a visual scenario for Hadal Zone : an immersive sound composition composed of unknown sounds recorded by scientists and military personnel in the ocean depths.

expansive polyurethane foam, plaster, varnish, acrylic, MDF, 40x85x35cm.

Digital print from a scanned silver negative, printed on aluminium, 100x140 cm.

This photography was taken in 2016 on the top of an abandoned building, the Lindenauer Hafen in Leipzig, built next to a river. The context experienced in the show gives access to a personal and mythological ascent in which the reader takes the place of the narrator: it is about the ancient legend of the columns of Hercules. This fact appears as a vision staged in the surrounding landscape, a reflection on the continuous and limitless flow of consumerism.

8’26.