For their exhibition Museum of Vanities, which took place at the IKOB – Museum of Contemporary Art, Jerry Frantz – the notorious inventor of absurd persons and projects – and Sali Muller – the sensitive analyst of habits of vision and perception – had created a series of works of art that fearlessly responded to the work of the other artist, entirely in the sense of a culture of dissent. On display were current works by the two Luxembourgish artists many of which were developed specifically for this exhibition.
Sali Muller was constituting the psychological counterpart in this double exhibition with works that stimulated reflection and, quite significantly, consisted of mirrors which for the most part did not reflect images and had been treated by the artist in various ways – whether by removing layers with sandpaper or applying layers of silicon, as with her work Crystal Clear from 2017. The show had been elaborated by museum director Frank-Thorsten Moll for the spaces of the IKOB as a succession of installations and cabinets that conveyed haunting and profound insights into the human psyche.