Event
curated by_vienna 2016: Meine Herkunft habe ich mir selbst ausgedacht
09 Sep 2016 – 15 Oct 2016
Wirtschaftsagentur Wien
Vienna, Austria
Tue—Fri, 11 am—6 pm; Sat, 11 am—4 pm
"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there,” the exhibition reverently collapses a number of assumptions, from the idea of the “past” to the notion of foreignness imbedded within the anachronistic designation “foreign country.”
Playing with L.P. Hartley’s famous and much quoted opening sentence to The Go-Between (1953), "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there,” the exhibition reverently collapses a number of assumptions, from the idea of the “past” to the notion of foreignness imbedded within the anachronistic designation “foreign country.”
The artists featured in the show are working within a classically modernist tradition, which they either idiosyncratically elaborate upon or hybridize with other indigenous and arts and crafts traditions. Thus the notion of so-called “foreignness” is problematized by the no less dubious notion of the “native”, as if it were possible to circumscribe the latter, especially in the 21st century.
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