A SWISS POEM

2021

The work „A Swiss Poem“ is an audio installation. It consists of a poem that Hallauer commissioned from the American artist Javier Alexandro Padilla Gonzalez. In it Hallauer dares a change of perspective and reveals the intimate and unsparing view of the at that time lover with Mexican roots, on Hallauer‘s being a foreigner. Next to it are three framed documents - a one-dollar bill, which serves as the background for the contract between Hallauer and Padilla Gonzalez, a note on a guest check and a photograph, also taken in Chicago, showing Padilla Gonzalez in front of the same window front that appears in „Loving Switzerland Pt. I“.