Exhibition
The Possibility of an Island
15 May 2013 – 20 Jul 2013
Event times
Vernissage: Wednesday 15 May, 7-10pm.
Travel Information
- U Bahn Wittenbergplatz
About
Curated by Elena Gilbert and Nadim Samman
Julieta Aranda
Mohamed Azzam Axza
Goldin+Senneby
Daniel Keller
Antti Laitinen
Mariyam Omar
Bik Van der Pol
Alexander Ponomarev
Andrew Ranville
Antoine Renard
Nicholas Roberts
Just as John Donne reported his discovery ' that 'no man is an island, entire of itself', but 'a piece of the continent, a part of the main' ' so Thoreau announced that 'the smallest stream is a Mediterranean sea'. In the particular, macro potential is revealed. Since Plato, through Defoe and Swift, via Gauguin, and in the work of numerous contemporary artists the island figure has been employed to negotiate relationships between the real and the imaginary, utopia and dystopia, selfhood and otherness, centre and periphery. This exhibition charts the topography of this intellectual archipelago ' interrogating the possibility of isolation in the 21st Century.
