Harm Gerdes – The Autotuned Mind

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Peres Projects is pleased to present The Autotuned Mind, Harm Gerdes’ (b. 1994 in Darmstadt, DE) fourth solo exhibition with the gallery and his first in Milan.

'Gerdes’ main achievement in this body of work is to investigate ways of giving shape to what is most intimate to us: the ways in which we form our thoughts. In doing so, the space he creates is one in which magical thoughts merge with rational and scientific ones, in which our emotional struggles meet our acquired knowledge, in which myths are deciphered and re-interpreted. The peculiarity of Gerdes’ approach is to intertwine references borrowed from multiple historical – and arguably mythical – ages with an aesthetic very much influenced by a slickness we automatically associate with a future, with something always in becoming. In this last element, I believe, lies the exceptional nature of the works brought together in this exhibition: their capacity to imagine a space in which our mind is guided, fooled, and yet therefore expanded.'
– Christian Oxenius