ROTWAND  Sabina Kohler & Bettina Meier-Bickel

Artists :: William Hunt

William Hunt

William Hunt
Interior Labour, Overlapping Underlaid.
Installation view, Rotwand Zurich, 2016
Photo credit: Alexander Hana

EXHIBITIONS AT ROTWAND

William Hunt, 2008
In Transit, 2010
William Hunt, 2010
William Hunt, 2014
William Hunt , 2016

 

Biography
Documentation

 

Born 1977 in London/ UK
Lives and works in Dusseldorf/ DE

With performances which often test physiological boundaries, William Hunt succeeds in provoking an almost intolerable unease. While the dangerous situations he continually puts himself in place him under enormous physical strain, they catapult the viewer into a frightening yet absurd emotional state. Not only do we wish that the artist’s apparently hopeless predicament swiftly concludes with a happy ending, we ourselves hope the situations, often pushed to the existential edge, will be resolved rapidly. Only the comedy of the situation, an aspect rarely lacking, succeeds in lifting this unease.