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9/3/2007

Beauty Unrealized

Public Space With A Roof, Amsterdam

Spider webs of personal universes seeking a form

The sixth part of Beauty Unrealized focuses on cinematic images and the possibility of crossing the boundaries between cinema and other media, as well as the possibilities to break the limits of the cinematic medium itself. In his works, Adam Avikainen examines possibilities of expanding the cinematic moment into different materials and media, proposing a personal reinterpretation of cinema techniques and objectives. From her side, Catherine Sullivan translates the theatrical into the cinematic and vice versa in order to investigate the limits of both. At the same time, Sullivan marks the division line between the individual and the universal, revealing where the Self ends and the cultural patterns begin. Through his selection of videos and films, Francesco Bernardelli presents a different vision of the images in order to enlarge our field of visual experience and disturb dominant regimes of the vision as "manifestations of dominant ideology of Form and Control."

As a framework for the whole project, we created a special library in which visitors can enter and get lost in the world of thoughts, ideas, questions, possibilities, and puzzles. For this library, we invited numerous individuals (artists, filmmakers, writers, theoreticians, etc.) to submit items that have significantly influenced them and their work. Inspired by Aby Warburg, this library is “a collection of questions” rather than “a repository of books, (…) involving not objects but the tension, analogies, contrasts, or contradictions among them”. Its inside will be used to host six separate exhibitions where the invited artists will present their past works, works in progress, or works produced especially for this project.

Like the majority of the PSWAR projects, Beauty Unrealized combines an exhibition with an accompanying series of talks, lectures, public debates, and a reader. This is the fourth and final project of the second phase of the work of PSWAR, the result of questions and problems that have arisen from the previous projects. We regard it as a closing of an imaginary circle, which is why we have invited all the artists who participated in the history of PSWAR to be a part of its closure.

Adam Avikainen's work can be seen as an on-going investigation of the potentialities of storytelling, both on a formal and content level. By applying a cinematic treatment to scripts and physical installations, the artist proposes whimsical fictions and self-made mythologies that act as raptures in the reality. For Beauty Unrealized Avikainen presents "Breathe same breath": a video, which reveals the the artist's ironic attitude towards the world, and his intention to create experiences 'between revelation and reason'.

Description: "A man gets into one of those jets with the people pacing up and down the aisles trying to sell you jasmine infused breast milk and flies to North America in search of his internet lover. Instead, he discovers a dipsomaniacal sailor slurping songs of cicadas. A post-transcendental walkabout. A square dance under the harvest moon with Caspar David Friedrich, Flannery O'Connor, Henry David Thoreau and Polly Jean Harvey." (A.A.)

Opening: 10 march 2007

Public Space With A Roof
Overtoom 301- Amsterdam
Open Thursday to Sunday 3pm - 7pm or by appointment.

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