Two exhibitions
dal 9/8/2013 al 10/9/2013
Segnalato da
Alejandro Vidal
Ibrahim Quraishi
kara lynch
Delio Jasse
Saskia Kobschall
Nadine Siergert
Storm Janse Von Rensburg
9/8/2013
Two exhibitions
SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin
The Myth of Proportional Response gets granular on the physics and rationality of actio-reactio and tit for tat, the economics of violence in quid pro quo phenomena and the logics of state sanctioned and justified force. In GhostBusters II (Haunted by Heroes) the phantom as metaphor of an unknown haunting entity, which leaves traces in our collective memory, is the crux of the exhibition.
The Myth of Proportional Response
Curated by Saskia Köbschall
Artists: Alejandro Vidal, Ibrahim Quraishi
Art Director: Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
The Myth of Proportional Response gets granular on the physics and rationality of actio-reactio and tit for tat, the economics of violence in quid pro quo phenomena and the logics of state sanctioned and justified force. In the last decade and through their respective works Alejandro Vidal and Ibrahim Quraishi have explored issues related to political violence and dissent.
In this exhibition they analyse the needs and impacts of conflicts on a global scale, as well as the instrumentalisation of fear, images and media to tame, control or enforce an ‘obedient’ society. Using photography, video and installation they investigate strategies that are present in today's angst dispositives.
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Ghostbusters II {Haunted by Heroes}
Curated by Nadine Siergert, Storm Janse Von Rensburg
Artists: kara lynch, Délio Jasse
Art Director: Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
In GhostBusters II {Haunted by Heroes} the phantom as metaphor of an unknown haunting entity, which leaves traces in our collective memory, is the crux of the exhibition. The focus hereby is not the personal memories but rather an investigation of (absent) memories in the collective archive.
Both artists work with historic and contemporary images of known and unknown personalities who once had positions of power and where regarded as heroes and heroines, as well as sites where power was/is executed.
Délio Jasse talks about the unsung heroes with the aid of found images, showing various sides of memory of colonial societies, thereby exposing the archive of the unknown. kara lynch is a cartographer, who constructs a map of an individual creative history as it emerges in connection to a collective afro-American history as zones of cultural haunting. She is particularly interested in places where collective memories are made invisible through systematic processes of cultural erasure.
Opening: 10th Aug. 2013, 7pm
SAVVY Contemporary
Richardstraße 43/44 I 12055 Berlin-Neukölln
www.savvy-contemporary.com
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Free admission