Asylum
dal 16/10/2013 al 1/11/2013
Segnalato da
16/10/2013
Asylum
Munchner Stadtmuseum - Sammlung Fotografie, Munich
An artistic installation by Pelagie Gbaguidi and Stefanie Oberhoff
Asylum at the Stadtmuseum tells the tale of an imaginary journey made by two female artists in the company of fifty traditional African puppets and masks that they first met in the storeroom of the Puppet Theater Collection. The exhibition seeks to recreate the shock of that first meeting with the puppets, which at the time were still wrapped up in their protective packaging, and trace its impact on the artists' imagination. Gbaguidi and Oberhoff are not interested in ethnographic interpretative paradigms. Consequently, they do not see any need to describe the identity of these objects by assigning each and every one to a particular scientific category. Instead, their work with the puppets focuses on an underlying historical context marked by racism, religion and politics.