Rivane Neuenschwander x New Museum – 23.06.2010

In collaboration with Brazalian conceptual artist Rivane Neuenschwande and New Museum, Third Drawer Down managed the production of the work ‘I Wish You Wish’ 2003

*Ms. Neuenschwander draws from her country’s rich folk traditions. One of her best-known works “I Wish Your Wish,” first presented in 2003 — is derived from a tradition popular among pilgrims to the Church of Nosso Senhor do Bonfim in Bahia, who bind ribbons to their wrists or the church’s front gate in the belief that when the ribbons fall off or disintegrate, their wishes will be granted.

In Ms. Neuenschwander’s conceptual-art variation, which will be displayed at the rear of the New Museum’s lobby, colorful silk ribbons have each been stamped with one of 60 wishes left by previous viewers of the piece. The show’s visitors can take a ribbon from one of 10,296 small holes in the wall in exchange for scribbling a new wish on a slip of paper and inserting it into the hole. “When I was starting off, I was very interested in the ephemeral, in quotidian materials that disappear or are subject to entropy, which is how my art got stuck with labels like ‘ethereal materialism,’ ” she explained.* Text from New York Times

60,000 wishes were made up of 60 diffrerent wishes over 10 different colours were printed and hand cut with another 40,000 wishes over 10 different colours made half way through the exhibition.