Event
curated by_vienna 2017: image/reads/text. Language in Contemporary Art
15 Sep 2017 – 14 Oct 2017
Wirtschaftsagentur Wien
Vienna, Austria
In describing humanity’s attempt to negotiate the shift from one technological regime to another, Walter Benjamin employed the metaphor of a child learning to grasp by stretching out its hand for the moon as it would for a ball. Taking this image as a starting point, the exhibition focuses on artworks in which moments of misrecognition or mistranslation between language and vision can give rise to new creative and transformative energies.
With works by:
Matthew Brannon
Alejandro Cesarco
Jakob Kolding
Roman Ondak
Lisa Oppenheim
Kathrin Sonntag
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