Together with our dear friend, Jim Avignon, we organized an exhibition entitled Halma. The concept for the show was based on the actual Halma board game; which we used to streamline our collaboration, by applying its rules to our creative processes. Thanks to this we could easily figure out which visual paths should be pursued and which should be abandoned, as we synchronized our styles.
The final show featured our collaborative paintings and a series of sculptures, which were inspired by the Halma pawns. In the end, we literally turned the space of Kunstverein Familie Montez, in Frankfurt, into one gigantic board game. The pawns could interact with each other and also with the audience. Stylistically, the work emphasized clean, geometric forms, which were displayed alongside wooden pieces that we collected on location. At the end, we realized that our work is kin to the costumes featured in Oskar Schlemmer’s Bauhaus piece, Triadic Ballet (1922).