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Christian Mayer and Yves Mettler
Hotel Helvetia
installation, 2006
Helvetia has given up her life as a hermit to open up a hotel in the city: Hotel Helvetia. A theme hotel in which each room reflects a different facet of Switzerland. There are exactly 10 rooms, numbered from 2 to 12. Only number 4 does not exist, nobody knows why. Which room one receives is determined by luck – of which one needs a lot – once one makes an initial decision to enter the hotel. One can leave the hotel rich or lose everything, one can be honest or betray shamelessly, the female patron watches over everything with her shield and sword. Beautiful Switzerland serves as a backdrop to this dangerous adventure, and is nevertheless merely used by all participants to secure their own well-being.
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