The Mondial is not just a concert venue, but rather a sensory laboratory in which different references to the world are constantly being honed. This also applies to thinking vision. Mondial aims to create visual worlds in which the foreign is condensed into a symbol in the form of everyday life and ritual, gesture and dress, landscape and building.
Display cases
Countless objects from all over the world are displayed in showcases, but not in the contemplative, instructive manner of an ethnological museum. No rare fetishes, no ancient masks, no museum-worthy ink drawings. Rather, hundreds of everyday objects, traces of other realities, vessels of memory and longing. Indian gods on matchboxes, a plastic angel, picturesque confectionery, Tourist toothpaste from a hotel in Vietnam, bags made out of tyre gum, lotus-shaped bedside lamps, quickly carved statuettes of African gods, plastic and gold busts of Ho Chi Minh, a black and white photograph of a boy somewhere in Asia, a threatening paramilitary on the advertising poster of a security service in Bamako (Mali), a carved William Tell ...
Signs of a reality between tradition and hypermodernity, loss of time and eternity, global flickering and local persistence. Each object is a witness to a local culture, inscribed in the global balance of power, but at the same time a nomadic reflection of the mixed culture in which we all live.
Photos: © Michael Studt; © Holzer Kobler Architekturen GmbH www.holzerkobler.com