The New Human
dal 13/3/2015 al 13/10/2015
Segnalato da
Ed Atkins
Trisha Baga
Yael Bartana
Robert Boyd
Loulou Cherinet
Ioana Cojocario
Cao Fei
Esra Ersen
Isaac Julien
Helen Marten
Santiago Mostyn
Adrian Paci
Tomáš Rafa
Mika Rottenberg
Frances Stark
Ryan Trecartin
Ferhat Ozgur
Joa Ljungberg
13/3/2015
The New Human
Moderna Museet, Malmo
'You and I in Global Wonderland' will focus on how we look at and interact with one another as human beings in a new world. We'll get to share experiences of gigantic transformation and human migration brought on by war, climate change, and economic globalization.
Curated by: Joa Ljungberg
The project has been madepossible through a substantial collaboration between Moderna Museet Malmö and the Julia Stoschek Collection in Düsseldorf. The work presented in the project has been produced since the turn of the last millennium and spans from seminal contemporary classics to very recent productions. At Moderna Museet Malmö, THE NEW HUMAN will be presented in two extensive chapters, each with a different focus and subtitle: You and I in Global Wonderland (2015) and Knock, Knock, is Anyone Home? (2016). A further chapter will thereafter be presented at Moderna Museet in Stockholm (2016).
You and I in Global Wonderland will focus on how we look at and interact with one another as human beings in a new world. We’ll get to share experiences of gigantic transformation and human migration brought on by war, climate change, and economic globalization. There will be works that explore the political and religious extremism of our time, and others that remind us of the colonial past and how it continues to affect the way we live together as humans today. As an exhibition, You and I in Global Wonderland may convey a longing for something lost—perhaps an earlier life ruined by war—but it will also present us with feelings of bewilderment, tenderness, disorientation and comedy that arise from confrontations between different cultures, languages and lifestyles.
Knock, Knock is Anyone Home? will catapult us into a virtual universe of hyper-real avatars and parallel worlds. In this chapter we’ll encounter human-looking characters that appear to have mutated with communication technologies and capitalist strategies to become something Other, something that on the surface looks human but is fundamentally nonhuman. A number of works in this chapter seem to point towards a shift—perhaps a devolution of mankind, or a transformation into something new. We here enter worlds in which the semantic order seems to implode and we find that language no longer connects to what we see. Known categories dissolve and disparate objects and materials seem to fuse and melt into one another. New amalgamations are being formed and a future human existence appears fundamentally uncertain
Image: Yael Bartana, Inferno, 2013 (stillbild från video/still from video), © courtesy of Petzel Gallery, New York; Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, and Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
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Sofia Alsterhag, Communications Officer
s.alsterhag@modernamuseet.se
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Opening; Saturday 14 March 2015
Moderna Museet
Gasverksgatan 22
Malmo