My Racing Car is a Shell, Jyväskylä

Views of the show

ALL OK, Thank you Äkkigalleria

Äkkigalleria 20 –  SBK My Racing Car is a Shell
August 1st - 4th, 2013 
Väinönkatu 36, Jyväskylä

Äkkigalleria’s twentieth exhibition presents SBK, a group exhibition including work by six international artists. 
SBK is an experimental, roaming, artistic platform developed by artist Hélène Baril during an artist residency at the Arteles Creative Centre, Finland, in 2011. Since then SBK has driven through a dozen different countries, achieved numerous feats and collaborated with local artists in several main arts centres around Europe. Having made a full circle, SBK is back in Finland for the final sprint. 
SBK is a car, a person and a world where poetry and common sayings come to life mixing with fantasy and adventure. It confuses fiction with reality, rally-cars with art and brings unlikely pairs together. Hélène Baril draws from a diverse array of artistic practices and forms of expression to embody the SBK entity. In this last sprint of 2013 at Äkkigalleria 20, SKB includes the work by 6 artists collected during an intense 6-month tour around Europe. The artists presented in this show are Hélène Baril, Laura Donkers, Alberto Martinez Centerera, Robert Prior Pitt, Matthew Scott Gualco and Lore Smolders 
This exhibition is organized in parallel to the infamous Neste Oil Rally Finland which occurs each year in the city of Jyväskylä. This car rally is one of the most prestigious car races of the world carrying with it thousands of rally fans who change the pace and atmosphere of this small city. The coincidence of SKB and the rally happening simultaneously in Jyväskylä brings two separate, isolated worlds so close they might touch. What will happen if they collide? Can two radically separate cultural events coexist in the same space? 
Äkkigalleria invites you to discover SBK at the opening of Äkkigalleria 20, at Väinönkatu 36 on July 31st from 4-6pm. The event is free of charge, everyone is welcome.

Anna Ruth, Äkkigalleria

Amuse-Bouche

what to do this summer

My Racing Car is a Shell Part 3

Feat. Äkkigälleria, Laura Donkers, Robert Prior-Pitt, Alberto Martinez Centenera 

SBK feat. Cetusss in "Tu verras en haut on a une super vue", at Duplex, Geneva

Blockhaus, tas de patates, 2013. Installation and performance, result of the collaboration between SBK and Cetusss. 

peeling potatoes

general view of the installation (Cetusss-SBK stickers and chips to take away)

plastic bottles pipe system

throwing away the potatoes

potatoes falling into water

yellow and blue image

view from potatoes eyes

drawings as posters

"Bloco de Campos", performance in Salève mountain, two days before:
http://vimeo.com/69328148

bellevue patate

Canon à Patates 3

Potato design by Cetusss

My racing car is a shell (performance)

Video of the performance made in Azuqueca de Henares is now online, here:

http://vimeo.com/68126438

"My racing car is a shell" is a 3 parts experimental road trip where SBK (Hélène Baril + her car) is traveling around Europe. There is no precise goal but the seek of making art and meeting people and organizations on a economically autonomous basis. SBK's own and independent economy is running thanks to oil. So the larger economy cannot be avoided in the making of the process. How can we drive our cars without oil? How can we survive as artists without galleries and collectors?

The video is showing the performance that SBK made in Azuqueca de Henares, Spain. It has been the result of a collaboration with EACEC (Espacio de Arte Contemporaneo el Contenedor) who is creating awareness about the potential of art in a rather small city (half an hour from Madrid), by inviting artists to interact with a container in public spaces. SBK's intention was to create a fake art opening by showing Hélène Baril's paintings first, and throwing them in the container afterwards. The artist identity is thrown away with the paintings, that is also how SBK rises. It is also the temptation to empty the shell sign from its meaning.

Car driving images were shot on North Uist Island, Scotland, where SBK was staying and working a few weeks before.

Tu verras en haut on a une super vue

Bientôt. Soon. SBK invite Cetusss. 

Great expectations.

Opening on june 27th, Duplex, rue des amis, Genève. Come over !!!! There will be food !!