The most important thing is our appreciation of the surface: the first, the most urgent thing is makeup...that is, the way to give the artificial surface to the surface, otherwise it is blind internal consciousness. In order to even begin to consider basic internality, any theory about us must be a theory about makeup. As a result, we divide cosmetics into two main categories: "surface" cosmetics (such as powder, foundation, blush) and "placement" cosmetics (such as mascara, eyeliner, lipstick). If the first type of cosmetics allows a person to enhance the appearance of the face, then the second type of cosmetics can help illustrate the basic internality by tracing the appearance. To outline the eyes or mouth is to invite the viewer to enter this internal space, that is, to challenge his existence. To challenge his existence is to challenge the existence of the world - a concrete universal world, not the external world, but the underside of the world, the concentration of the interior. Therefore, it has great erotic potential: to attract a lover is to posess the world. In describing these two types of makeup and in presenting the girl in makeup as keeper of the secret of the world’s interiority— a secret only accessible by means of cosmetic artifice— we reveal ourselves.
Guy and Gal Saloon
with Karl-William Klenk, Qin Xu, Linh Dan, Halo
Curated, storyline: Halo
Photography: Qin Xu, Linh Dan, Red0
Audio by Douglas Fir
Thanks to Red0 for installation assistance + printing out images