Jimmie Durham - Sound and silliness: fleur de pas mal : a proposal for a new international genuflexion in promotion of world peace

In the exhibition space of the MAXXI, Durham presented two audio works (Domestic Glass, 2006 and Swifts Porta Capuana, 2013) and two video works (Fleur de pas mal, 2005 and A Proposal for a New International genuflexion in Promotion of World Peace, 2007), respectively filmed and recorded in Italy. His works are a light-hearted response to the architecture of the museum and the city of Rome, where the relaxed approach of the author is intended as a gentle and peaceful response to important matters. The original format of this publication, a hybrid between a catalogue and an artist's book, is the interpreter of this poetic attitude and of the central themes in Durham artistic work.