Plural Perspectives

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The exhibition project Plural Perspectives aims to reveal contemporary dynamics and a diversity of perspectives on physical sites that carry a symbolic meaning in the city of Berlin. Curated by Dereck Marouço Sant'Anna da Silva, the project connects public space with artistic practices that develop new conversations with monuments, buildings or institutions to reflect and review versions of history endorsed by the state and capital.

Five artistic positions were invited to create works in relation to five sites in the city: Alice Creischer (Mall of Berlin), Aykan Safoğlu (Siegessäule), Edgar Calel (Sarotti Factory), Jota Mombaça (Haus der Berliner Konferenz), and Mukenge/Schellhammer (Humboldt Forum). Between June 10–25, the new commissions will be presented at soft power, itself located at one of the sites, the former Sarotti factory in Tempelhof, exhibiting some of the relations that arose from the dialogue between the artworks and the places they respond to. Simultaneously, each work takes a presence on the streets through posters in the direct vicinity of the respective site, mapped out on an interactive website. The critical relationship established between the works, the exhibition and the urban space aims to decentralise the experience of contemporary art by engaging the passers-by, and to insert other narratives into the social-urban fabric.