ARTHAUS I ‘ONE FOR ALL AND ALL FOR ONE’ I BASEL, SWITZERLAND, 2024

Aboudia, Ai Weiwei, Olasunkanmi Akomolehin, Emil Alzamora, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Kombo Chapfika, Rimm Chae, Shi Chong, Nkechi Ebubedike, Qin Feng, Rafael Fuchs, Dr. Gindi, Jeffrey Spencer Hargrave, Huang Yong Ping, Katinka Huang, Ai Kijima, Margaret Innerhofer, Lara Birgit Kamhi, Sherry Kerlin, Ai Kijima, Li Daiyun, Liu Xiaodong, Luis Carrera Maul, Ribal Molaeb, Chi Ming, Donna Mikkelsen, Catheris Mondombo, Innocent Nkurunziza, Yigal Ozeri, Paul Paiement, Vanessa Paz, Michel Platnic, Gerard Fernandez Rico, The Sucklord, José Vivenes, Maxim Wakultschik, Yuan Yunsheng,

ARTHAUS, Basel, Installation:
‘ONE FOR ALL AND ALL FOR ONE’
Sound: INNERHOFERLAB

New York-based Italian-born artist Margaret Innerhofer explores her upbringing in the Italian Alps, formerly the territory of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Italy, posing questions about identity and belonging. Should the old adage “fight until the last man standing for your homeland” be revisited?

The installation juxtaposes two color and black-and-white images, continuing Innerhofer’s investigation of the conscious and subconscious duality.
One image, a family picture, shows the artist’s “Sound of Music”-type upbringing, while the other depicts Roman monuments, symbols of fascism, and the Roman Empire. This installation symbolizes and questions Italy’s radical takeover of South Tyrol after World War I.

What started as a victimization statement— “Should we, as a people, fight to return to our original country, Austria?—transformed into a realization that I am celebrating both cultures.” To ensure this, Innerhofer booked three sessions with Psychiatrist and Subconscious specialist Dr. Jonathan S. Hyland, PhD. He confirmed her happiness as an ‘Italiano-Austrian hybrid,’ channeling and celebrating both cultures, feeling enriched rather than deprived.
"Maybe my experience can offer hope to those in conflict. There is life after war; maybe we are one step closer to erasing borders and becoming ONE."

Excerpts from Session Process Notes from Dr. Jonathan S Hyland, PhD:
“Subject 0049:
- The subject’s art installation represents a pre-verbal psychic depiction of her expurgated voice box in its ascension to self-realization

- The menacing face of the oppressed symbolized by the monument melts away into an embodied weave of her ancestral voices, hybridizing Heimat and Italian love song, speaking the one from the two in an oracular visionary expression.”

- It is clear that the experience of profound realization within the client’s psyche was evoked by the preparation of art installation and was not fully realized within the client’s power of speech.”