BERN.- Kunsthalle Bern presents the first institutional solo exhibition of Swiss artist Marianne Flotron. The exhibition features major recent works by the artist as well as a new video-installation, called Work, produced by Kunsthalle Bern. Because of her interests in the interrelationship between political or economical systems and human behaviour, Marianne Flotron attempts to find the traces of manipulation, which could potentially influence this behaviour. Through therapies, trainings and self-help books, the “self” gets dramatized and fictionalized. Authenticity is lost when emotions are produced and deployed in order to improve social competence and access to the social market. Flotron’s video works tackle in a progressive and accumulative way the different strategies of the fictionalisation of the self in our post-capitalist society. That’s why recently for her subject matter the artist is