Nest in Laak
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20/03/2025 • 31/05/2025
Fog Is My Drug
Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz present their new exhibition Fog Is My Drug at Nest in Laak, exploring the tension between visibility and invisibility. They embrace Édouard Glissant’s concept of the “right to opacity”, linking it to (queer) nightlife and the “abstract club”, connecting to the neighbouring club Laak.
In the video installation in the exhibition, El Cristal Es Mi Piel, musician Aérea Negrot performs a song, co-written with the artists, that gives voice to Madrid’s Palacio de Cristal and its colonial past. Built in 1887 for the colonial Exposición de las Filipinas, the palace’s transparent architecture symbolises a colonial gaze aiming to observe and control. Boudry and Lorenz question how the building can confront this history, imagining it as a “ghost” seeking revenge – cracking, leaking, and letting nature in. Using mirrored stages, they offer new perspectives, while smoke gradually obscures the palace’s transparency, challenging its original purpose.
In the front space there is work on show by Kexin Hao.
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About Nest in Laak
Nest is a contemporary art platform with a large exhibition¬ space. Nest is housed in the DCR, a creative incubator, together with over 35 artists and designers and three cultural organisations.Exhibitions at Nest focus on specific themes which are being investigated through the work of local, national and international artists. Nest projects not only look at the artist and his or her work, but also pay attention to the role of artists and artworks within their social and functional context in society.
