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8/12/2011

I know what you don't see

Karlin Studios, Prague

curated by CAPRI Berlin

An exhibition held in December in an ample and unheated factory hall, inevitably stipulates a special curatorial approach. Accounting for Karlin Studios’ particular circumstances, CAPRI Berlin has elaborated an all-over site-specific installation. I KNOW WHAT YOU DON’T SEE comprises mostly 3-dimensional artworks and video pieces, presented on and inbetween garden furniture and caravans, and forming a scenario that recalls a camping site.

If you go camping, you endeavour to install a kind of living-room out in the greens, and this act contains and mirrors many of the ambiguous notions that define our very idea of nature. ‘Nature’ stands for some- thing we have lost, we look for, and we don’t belong to — also something we control and exploit, however we may adore it: a picture.

Stages of transition, intervalls, and the potentials of imperfection are central issues of the exhibition. The indoor-camping site in I KNOW WHAT YOU DON’T SEE supplies the ground for artworks that often deal with prototypes and clichées, questioning the vantage points of the beholders and of the artists them- selves. Any artistic statement is both a proposition and a refusal: something is offered, and a lot remains concealed. The title I KNOW WHAT YOU DON’T SEE refers to the dialogic and contradictory nature of any act of identification, including that of identifying a work of art. Sometimes taking rather funny turns, this process of exclusions and cooptations is playing with the obvious, with our knowledge and with the invisible.

In many works presented in I KNOW WHAT YOU DON’T SEE the gestures of mapping and identifying appear as performed in a test assembly — assuming that failure is likely to happen. The term crisis originally means intensification and landmark, hence it points towards the future, however turbid this may be. Accounting for the probability of stranding, the works in the exhibition nevertheless stand for the resolve to defy a precarious reality with a kind of passionate irony — being aware that only fragile things may move.
Bettina Carl/CAPRI Berlin

In this exhibition in Karlin Studios, CAPRI continue their collaboration with many artists who have also participated in ICH WEISS WAS DU NICHT SIEHST, an art project realised in March 2010 at Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien Berlin. CAPRI Berlin stands for a collective of artists-curators, presently consisting of Ina Bierstedt and Bettina Carl. Together with the artist Alena Meier, they directed from 2001-2006 CAPRI Space for Contemporary Art in Berlin Mitte where they curated over 70 exhibitions and organised several international art projects.

The annual exhibition program of Karlín Studios Is supported by: MHMP, MKČR Media Partner: Protišedi.cz, Radio Wave, Radio 1, Artyčok.tv, Artmap, Prague Galleries Project Partner: M2 real estate

Opening: opening: Friday December 9th, 2011, 6 pm

7 pm «It has to do with success — don’t call us — we call you — oral and technical presentation for unknown rooms» a performance by Dietmar Fleischer and Ilona Winter

Karlin Studios
Krizikova 34 - Prague
Hours: December 10th, 2011 until January 8th, 2012, Wednesday-Sunday 12-6 pm closed on Dec. 24 - 25, and Dec. 31 - Jan. 1, 2012
Free admission

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