Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg

Exhibitions

Exhibition: Neutralité,Neutralität, Neutralita, Neutralitad, Neutrality, 3.7–12.9.2004

Armin Linke, John Palmesino + Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, Anselm Franke + Eyal Weizman, Francesco Jodice, Sarat Marahaj, Stefano Boeri

Neutralité,Neutralität, Neutralita, Neutralitad, Neutrality

July 3–September 12, 2004
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John Palmesino, Anne-Sofi Rönnskog, Map Room, 2004. Photo: Dominique Uldry

Neutrality is a specific way of organizing matter in space in order to create an operational zone where to manage conflicts, contradictions, diversities. Neutrality is a modality of creating a counterpart to the hierarchical understanding of geo-politics, of identity, of war, of the nuances of peace and internationalism in the wake of globalization; an attempt to turn our gaze towards reality, away from our theories. To be neutral, in a certain sense and under certain circumstances, can be understood as the ultimate contemporary political and powerful condition, a condition that engages individuals with the spatial organization of our institutions, our nations, our wars. Neutrality is an exhibition on the transformation of space. Entering the contemporary condition seemed in the last decade a drift towards a common vanishing point, where cities, territories, matter, nature would have become virtual, interchangeable, generic: the set of ephemeral activities.

Neutralité,Neutralität, Neutralita, Neutralitad, Neutrality image
John Palmesino, Anne-Sofi Rönnskog, Map Room, 2004. Photo: Dominique Uldry
Neutralité,Neutralität, Neutralita, Neutralitad, Neutrality image
Armin Linke, Neutrality Books, 2004. Photo: Dominique Uldry
Neutralité,Neutralität, Neutralita, Neutralitad, Neutrality image
Armin Linke, Neutrality Books, 2004. Photo: Dominique Uldry
Neutralité,Neutralität, Neutralita, Neutralitad, Neutrality image
Eyal Weizman Anselm Franke, Islands, 2004. Photo: Dominique Uldry
Neutralité,Neutralität, Neutralita, Neutralitad, Neutrality image
Eyal Weizman Anselm Franke, Islands, 2004. Photo: Dominique Uldry
Neutralité,Neutralität, Neutralita, Neutralitad, Neutrality image
Eyal Weizman Anselm Franke, Islands, 2004. Photo: Dominique Uldry
Neutralité,Neutralität, Neutralita, Neutralitad, Neutrality image
Francesco Jodice, Crossing #01 Milan, 2003. Photo: Dominique Uldry.
Neutralité,Neutralität, Neutralita, Neutralitad, Neutrality image
Francesco Jodice, Crossing #01 Milan, 2003. Photo: Dominique Uldry.
Neutralité,Neutralität, Neutralita, Neutralitad, Neutrality image
Armin Linke, Inside/Outside, 2002. Photo: Dominique Uldry
Neutralité,Neutralität, Neutralita, Neutralitad, Neutrality image
Armin Linke, Inside/Outside, 2002. Photo: Dominique Uldry
Neutralité,Neutralität, Neutralita, Neutralitad, Neutrality image
Sarat Maharaj, Peter J. Mayers, NEURON_NEUTRALITY, 2004. Photo: Dominique Uldry
Neutralité,Neutralität, Neutralita, Neutralitad, Neutrality image
Sarat Maharaj, Peter J. Mayers, NEURON_NEUTRALITY, 2004. Photo: Dominique Uldry
Neutralité,Neutralität, Neutralita, Neutralitad, Neutrality image
Plan de salle
Neutralité,Neutralität, Neutralita, Neutralitad, Neutrality image
Plan de salle

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