| Stefan
Altenburger |
| Cédric
Bobay |
| etc.
publications |
| Christoph
Büchel |
| Fatma
Charfi |
| collectif_fact |
| Eric
Hattan |
| Andreas
Hofer |
| Teresa
Hubbard / |
| Alexander
Birchler |
| Steeve
Iuncker |
| Park
Junebum |
| Dagmar
Keller / |
| Martin
Wittwer |
| Franticek
Klossner |
| Chantal
Michel |
| Frédéric
Moser / |
| Philippe
Schwinger |
| Marco
Poloni |
| Christian
Robert-Tissot |
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"So
wie die Dinge liegen" (as matters stand) presents works exploring
various concepts of space – and their "order of things":
the national and urban topographies of a society with global aspirations,
its architectures and private interiors, but equally the pictorial
and illusory spaces of the modern subject. It is about the –
real and imaginary – environments that the self has created to
entrench itself in the world and in which it is constantly reflecting
its self-images, its narratives, its memory, its desire and its relationship
to things.
Within these conditions of reflection of subject and space, the artists
enact tilts, breaks and blind spots. To this end, they intervene in
the linear narrative spaces and grammars of modern image media –
photography, film, video, computer animation – in order to organise
asymmetric conditions within these fields. They create open narratives
that lead to a host of interpretations and conclusions that dislocate
the homogeneity of the self and its environment, cause and effect,
time and space. Within these pictorial and narrative spaces, things
are never quite as they seem.
The strategies and fields of reference with which the artists approach
the different concepts of space and narrative spaces of the individual
differ greatly. The works deal with the 3D worlds of computer animations,
the illusory spaces of cinema and stage, historical events, and fictitious
stories. The focus is on scenes of private and public self-enactment,
the places of identification of political representation, scenes of
"crime", the "corporate identity" of states, and
the physical and psychological condition of the self. |
