When the Present is History
12 September – 10 November 2019
Curator: Daphne Vitali
Artists: Zbyněk Baladrán, Eric Baudelaire, Ege Berensel, Rossella Biscotti, Banu Cennetoğlu, Barış Doğrusöz, Eirene Efstathiou, Alessandra Ferrini, Johan Grimonprez, Ivan Grubanov, Yota Ioannidou, Deimantas Narkevičius, Ines Schaber and Avery F. Gordon, Rayyane Τabet, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Vangelis Vlahos, Malastrada film (M. H. Bertino, D. Castelli and A. Gagliardo)
Opening: 11 September 2019, 18:30
How do artists today talk aboutthe present? How do they engage with diverse social and political problems? How do they read the past? A large number of artists today, acting as archivists, archeologists or editors, have used different methods of searching, selecting and appropriating existing images and documents. By re-visualizing, re-arranging and re-editing found material, they attempt to enquire about its status in order to create works that unsettle established narratives and imagine alternative readings.
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