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Mirosław Balka
Carol Bove
Steven Claydon
Phil Collins
Aaron Curry
Michael Dean
Ruth Ewan
Geoffrey Farmer
Omer Fast
Rachel Harrison
Thomas Houseago
Marine Hugonnier
Sherrie Levine
Glenn Ligon
Edward Lipski
Goshka Macuga
Matthew Monahan
Deimantas Narkevicius
Richard Prince
Daniel Silver
Monika Sosnowska
Pavel S. Pys
Zabludowicz Collection Curatorial Open 2011. An exhibition that brings together a number of international artists whose practices examine the relationship between time, memory and forgetting. Comprising works in different media including sculpture, photography and video installation, the exhibition presents objects and artefacts which bear traces of the passing of time, becoming remnants through which we access history.
Curated by Pavel S. Pyś
Mirosław Bałka, Carol Bove, Steven Claydon, Phil Collins, Aaron Curry, Michael Dean, Ruth Ewan, Geoffrey
Farmer, Omer Fast, Rachel Harrison, Thomas Houseago, Marine Hugonnier, Sherrie Levine, Glenn Ligon, Edward
Lipski, Goshka Macuga, Matthew Monahan, Deimantas Narkevičius, Richard Prince, Daniel Silver, Monika
Sosnowska
The Zabludowicz Collection is delighted to announce We Will Live, We Will See, an exhibition that brings
together a number of international artists whose practices examine the relationship between time, memory and
forgetting.
The exhibition, curated by Pavel S. Pyś, marks the culmination of the first annual Zabludowicz Collection
Curatorial Open. Pyś was selected in March 2011 by a panel of judges comprised of Lisa Le Feuvre, James
Lingwood, Mark Rappolt and Anita Zabludowicz. He has been granted unlimited access to the Zabludowicz
Collection and a budget of £40,000 to realise the exhibition, its accompanying publication and public
programme.
Voicing accounts of lived experience ranging from the most personal and intimate in character to those shared
and collective in scope – We Will Live, We Will See looks at ways of recalling and re-telling the past. Comprising
works in different media including sculpture, photography and video installation, the exhibition presents objects
and artefacts which bear traces of the passing of time, becoming remnants through which we access history.
Similarly, artworks may act as the lens through which this past is reconfigured, reinterpreted and made relevant
today. We Will Live, We Will See draws upon such works to consider the past not in terms of a normative ‘truth’,
but rather in terms of unraveling, replaying and remaking.
Destabilising dominant chronologies and taxonomies of display is key to the works of Steven Claydon, Rachel
Harrison, Sherrie Levine and Richard Prince. Their work looks at the importance of taste and humour, fiction and
imagination while questioning assumed typologies and linear accounts of time. The permanence of objects is a
common preoccupation in the works of Aaron Curry, Thomas Houseago, Matthew Monahan and Daniel Silver.
Invoking art historical references from classicism, modernist sculpture and popular culture, these artists deal
with the monumental and the auratic nature of art and culture. Methods and modes of display are key to many
of these plinth-based works, which blur the boundaries between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture, question authenticity
and examine their own relationships with primitivism and exoticism. The works of Mirosław Bałka, Phil Collins
and Michael Dean explore the gap between experience and retelling, producing and receiving. Brushing
collective narratives against the most intimate of stories exposes the fallacy of universal accounts of experience.
We Will Live, We Will See takes into account the dangers of relying on objects to illuminate the past, working
with the ambiguity and openness that characterises the multiplicity of voices and accounts of history.
The exhibition will include a new commission by Michael Dean and the first UK public presentation of Omer
Fast’s The Casting (2007) a work exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in 2008. A full
public programme of talks and events which expand on interpretations of history will accompany the show
along with a fully illustrated publication designed by The Entente.
This initiative builds upon the Zabludowicz Collection’s existing commitment to experimental curatorial
practices, including previous projects with international curators and curating students such as The Library of
Babel / In and Out of Place with Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Past‐Forward with Vincent Honoré and the annual
Testing Ground programme produced in collaboration with the MA curating students from the Royal College of
Art and Goldsmiths College, London.
The Zabludowicz Collection Curatorial Open is an annual initiative to encourage and support experimental
curatorial practice. A major opportunity to work with a collection of international repute, the winner of the
Curatorial Open is awarded full and unlimited access to the Zabludowicz Collection as well as a budget of
£40,000 with which to curate an exhibition for public display at 176 Prince of Wales Road, London. Applications
for the 2012 Zabludowicz Collection Curatorial Open will launch online in September 2011. Deadline for
applications is 1 December 2011, and recipient will be announced in January 2012.
Press Information: Kristina McLean at Calum Sutton PR
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7183 3577 or Email: kristina@suttonpr.com
Opening 7 July 2011, 7-9pm
Zabludowicz Collection
176 Prince of Wales Road, London
Chalk Farm / Kentish Town West
Opening hours: Thursday - Sunday 12–6pm or by appointment
Admission Free