CHEESEWORLD at Galerie Rudolfinum
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| Installation view of Poetics of Encryption at Galerie Rudolfinum, 2025 | |
| Type | Contribution to a group exhibition |
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| Opening | February 13, 2025 |
| Closing | May 11, 2025 |
| Venue | Galerie Rudolfinum |
| Location | Prague, Czech Republic |
| Curator | Nadim Samman |
| Organizer | Galerie Rudolfinum; Eva and Franco Mattes |
| Artists | Remilia Corporation with Eva and Franco Mattes |
CHEESEWORLD at Galerie Rudolfinum was the presentation of Remilia Corporation's #CHEESEWORLD meme archive in Poetics of Encryption, a group exhibition at Galerie Rudolfinum in Prague that ran from February 13 to May 11, 2025.[1] Remilia took part as a guest collaborator in P2P, an ongoing work by the artist duo Eva and Franco Mattes, which distributed a 1GB archive of CHEESEWORLD memes from a server inside the gallery.[2]
Background
Poetics of Encryption was curated by Nadim Samman and built on his book Poetics of Encryption: Art and the Technocene. The exhibition was organized in three sections, Black Site, Black Box and Black Hole, and included work by 34 artists and groups, among them Eva and Franco Mattes, Joshua Citarella, Simon Denny, Trevor Paglen and Jon Rafman.[1]
The Mattes' P2P (2022) is a server cage holding a rack server, a data file and torrent software.[3] Remilia describes it as "an itinerant, artist-run server that infiltrates institutional art venues": it uses a host institution's infrastructure and internet connection to share new or rarely seen work by invited artists over a peer-to-peer network.[2]
The installation
At the Mattes' invitation, Remilia developed CHEESEWORLD as a "memetic formula" and coordinated non-artist participants to produce thousands of original memes. Remilia and the Mattes curated the resulting 1GB archive together. The work also includes a copylefted web applet that gives images a "deep fried" magazine-scan filter and Impact-font captions.[2]
In the gallery, the archive stayed hidden inside the P2P server, housed in a white monolithic structure, so visitors saw only its blinking lights and heard its fans. Members of the public could join the seeding through peer-to-peer.xyz.[2] Credits for the installation list Salotto Buono for the cage design, Nelini & Ziliani for the software and Michal Stochl for the installation.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Poetics of Encryption". Rudolfinum. Retrieved 2026-10-22.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2025-02-13. "Press Release: P2P and Galerie Rudolfinum Present: Remilia Corporation's #CHEESEWORLD". Remilia Corporation. Retrieved 2026-10-22.
- ↑ "Poetics of Encryption: Eva & Franco Mattes". Galerie Rudolfinum. Retrieved 2026-10-22.