
Skira, 2020

Skira, 2020
In 2019, artist Anri Sala presented his solo exhibition AS YOU GO for the first time at the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art in Italy. Making use of the museum’s architectural space, he interwove the visual and the auditory, bringing new interpretations and possibilities to history.
This book offers an in-depth exploration of AS YOU GO, which is also featured in Winsing Art Place. The work is composed of music and moving image, bringing together several of Sala’s most important recent video works, including Ravel Ravel, Take Over, and If and Only If. Specifically conceived for the Castello di Rivoli, the installation employs complex mechanisms and technologies to project the videos onto the museum’s distinctive walls. The exhibition unfolds like a “parade,” with flowing images and multiple narratives that, over time and through the extension of space, seek to provide viewers with an immersive experience of heightened emotion and synesthetic impact.
In addition to the videos mentioned above, the exhibition also featured another installation, Bridges in the Doldrums. This work consists of clarinet, saxophone, and trombone performing 74 musical bridges drawn from popular songs, jazz, and folk music from various times and places, presented in the form of percussion. Through this, Sala explores the moments when these musical bridges contradict or estrange one another.
The book concludes with a survey of Sala’s works from his early practice to the present, providing a comprehensive view of the trajectory of his artistic development.