Exhibition
The Pleasure of the Text
24 Apr 2015 – 24 May 2015
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- 223 Cambridge Heath Road
- London
- E2 0EL
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bethnal Green Tube Station
Campoli Presti is pleased to announce "The Pleasure of the Text" a group show featuring Kerstin Brätsch, Lucy Dodd, Michaela Eichwald, Daiga Grantina, Jutta Koether, Amy Sillman, Joan Snyder
About
"The Pleasure of the Text" focuses on the constant flow of negotiations between predefined historical notions of artistic practices and the personal way in which they are appropriated and read. The exhibition brings together artists that question the labeling of their works and re-elaborate them on their own terms, in an often unprejudiced and receptive manner. Taking an imprudent approach to their medium and its materiality, the artists engage in an active definition of their practice that emancipates itself from theoretical expectations.
The exhibition takes its title from Roland Barthes' 1973 book of the same name, in which the pleasure of reading exists in a derivative path, when our body follows its own ideas and destabilizes its historical, cultural and psychological assumptions. "Text means tissue, but whereas hitherto we have always taken this tissue as a product, a ready-made veil, behind which lies more or less hidden, meaning (truth), we are now emphasizing, in the tissue, the generative idea that the text is made, is worked out in a perpetual interweaving: lost in this tissue - this texture - the subject unmakes himself".
