“79.89.09″ Talk with Payam Sharifi and Boy Vereecken (Slavs and Tatars) on 01.04.2011, 7pm

 

THE MONOBROW MANIFESTO, 2010
PVC, print, helium, 300 cm diameter sphere

The monobrow is an epiphenomenon through which  Slavs and Tatars demystify the conflict between West and East often accepted as received wisdom.

If in the West, the monobrow has been associated with delinquent behaviour (Victorian England) or werewolves (France), in the Middle East and the Caucasus, the monobrow is a sign of virility and sophistication. That is, if in the southern parts of Eurasia, the monobrow is hot, in the US and Europe, it’s clearly not.

After an open air installation at Frieze Sculpture Park in October 2010 where the sphere was presented as a floating balloon, it´s now installed as an indoor balloon, perfectly responding to the size of the space.