press: Joschua Yesni Arnaut’s solo exhibition »ungerne« (FAZ)

For Father’s Day, we highlight »Maybe I’m Just Like My Father« from Joschua Yesni Arnaut’s solo exhibition »ungerne« at Galerie 3AP.

As Christoph Schütte writes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the exhibition could almost “sound like a punk band” and unfolds through a dense field of music, text, and attitude. From band-like slogans in the paintings to spoken fragments and references to Prince, Donny Hathaway, or Neurosis, the work constructs its language from cultural noise and emotional charge.

At its center, Arnaut formulates a question via Prince: “Maybe I’m just like my father”. Schütte reads this moment not as a declaration but as exposure – an instance of uncertainty running through a practice positioned “between poetry and prose, doubt and confession”, where, as he notes, “nothing is unambiguous”.

The exhibition’s structure, as he describes it, is defined by ambiguity and differentiation, shifting between White Cube and Black Box, between image and rupture, citation and break. Even when forms are enlarged, scratched, or broken, meaning resists resolution and remains in suspension.

What Schütte ultimately underlines is an artist who “has no fear of false pathos”, and it is precisely this stance that holds the work together, keeping it open, exposed, and unresolved.

On Father’s Day, »Maybe I’m Just Like My Father« returns to that question without settling it. Inheritance appears not as answer, but as echo, repetition, and interruption.

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