Akku Kunstplattform presents « Der Stand Der Dinge » (The State of Things) a solo exhibition by artist Antoine Félix Bürcher, born in Paris in 1999, raised in Lausanne, and living in Zurich since 2021. His works are dreamlike and contemplative, yet at the same time precise and well-thought-out. Bürcher explores how we are inundated today with digital images and stimuli. He counters this reality with works that linger in the mind and invite the viewer to look closely. Everyday reality, dream images, and invented stories intermingle without allowing for clear categorization. The works defy simple interpretation and instead invite an open and curious perception. In the exhibition, surfaces, supports, and structures come together. Turned-off screens, arranged in a circular formation, borrow the geometry of theaters and assembly halls. In doing so, they function not as displays, but as spatial gestures. Glass panels, separated from one another by railroad ties, layer transparency and time. In the process, dust, scratches, and traces remain visible from installation to installation. A plucked-out pendulum in the corner no longer structures time, but only space. A series of photographs in clear plastic sleeves shows snapshots from Bürcher’s practice; here, an archive of the past reveals the state of affairs. A hollowed-out computer case, also filled with railroad ties and crowned by melted glass in abstract keyboard and machine forms, from which water continuously drips, connects geological material with technological relics. Electrical plugs, firmly mounted on a surface, their cables cut off, refer to connection and interruption. Familiar materials are slowed down, emptied, or shifted from their usual uses. What remains is structure and the question of what supports what.

— Caspar Danuser