Off Cardinal Points

About

Every work of art comes with its own set of dynamics and inscribed information and is perceived within a framework of certain perceptual systems. It bares its own way of organizing information and the way this unfolds reveals its unique intelligence. At the same time an artwork can’t be limited to any specific parameters as its logic and meaning is mutable, arbitrary, if not capricious; its meaning remaining an approximation. An exhibition then becomes only a snapshot of the dynamics an artwork negotiates.

Off Cardinal Points brings together a group of works that echo various modes of awareness for those conditions …

…What happens when an artwork detaches itself from a specific medium, existing in different states of being … When information is condensed in ways that unintended hierarchies and semantics evolve … When infrastructures outside of the art world are employed as vehicles for artistic impulses, and common ideas of authorship and ownership are questioned … When visual signs become notations of barbaric acoustics of possible thresholds of complexity … and signals are capable of propagating the noises of the mutability and the individual topology of the journey an artwork undertakes.

With works by: Lutz Bacher, Gintaras Didžiapetris, Adriana Lara, Sven Loven, DAS INSTITUT with Allison Katz, Carissa Rodriguez, Philippe Thomas