Smooth Operator: A Performance by Fondazione Elis
DJ Set Walter Bernath
Where
Level 7

Sunday, April 19th at 6:30pm.

Smooth Operator – DJ set Walter Bernath (Paris) is a live performance derived from the solo exhibition by Villiam Miklos Andersen (Denmark, 1995), currently on view at Fondazione Elpis and curated by Gabriele Tosi. The exhibition investigates comfort as an institutional product. Conceived for Paris Internationale, the intervention brings a dimension of celebration and clubbing to the fair. Rendering familiar queer environments is central to Andersen’s sculptural and relational practice. Through the displacement of materials and codes, the artist explores how services, commodities, and transitional spaces organize bodies and behaviors, revealing the link between desire and economy. From this perspective, his work takes the form of a “logistical cruising”: a traversing of functional systems that are diverted, eroticized, and returned to unexpected uses. The DJ set originates from the journey of a military sauna from the island of Gotland to Milan, through a cold winter Europe, translating its logistics into rhythm, party, and sweat.

Gabriele Tosi, Exhibition curator of Smooth Operator, Fondazione Elpis

Villiam Miklos Andersen, Artist featured in Smooth Operator, Fondazione Elpis
Villiam Miklos Andersen is the artist currently exhibiting Smooth Operator at Fondazione Elpis, curated by Gabriele Tosi. The first collaboration between Tosi and Andersen dates back to 2024 for the Una Boccata d’Arte program by Fondazione Elpis in Serre di Rapolano (Siena), Tuscany, with the work Rock Hard Milk.

Walter Bernath, DJ and sound artist
Walter Bernath, DJ and sound artist, took part with Andersen in the journey of the mobile military sauna from the island of Gotland to Milan—now on display at Fondazione Elpis—contributing to the sound production of the work Smooth Operator – The Sauna Tour.