Until 19 OCT

Art & Alienation

  • Ethan Assouline
    Hannah Black
    Mauro Cerqueira
    Jimmie Durham
    Morag Keil
    Milena Langer
    Delphine Mouly
    Richard Sides

What form might a work of art take that seeks to convey something of this sense of alienation in the present? Art & Alienation brings together more or less recent works by 8 artists, most of whom live in Europe. Each artist presents extracts from what is often experimental and in-flux practice. These singular universes mask a shared idea: artistic practice is also always a critique of production. Artistic creation always already comes into being alienated in capital’s abstraction. The irresolvable contradictions on the social, creative and economic horizon of art only reach resolution in negation.

In the exhibition, the abrasive dimension of existence is inscribed in forms of deskilling, economic insecurity and détournement. False equivalences and errors of the mind haunt this exploration of a subject as old as the idea of modernity itself.

“The more labor is de-personalised and abstracted, the more it appears as creative and personalized.”
Benjamin Noys, The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory, Edinburgh University Press, 2010, p.165

Curation

Nicolas Brulhart

SUPPORTS
  • State of Fribourg
  • Loterie Romande
  • Agglomeration Fribourg
  • City of Fribourg
  • BCF I FKB
  • Fondation Philanthropique Famille Sandoz
  • Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council
  • Ernst & Olga Gubler-Hablützel Stiftung
  • République et canton de Genève
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Abstraction & Alienation

In conjunction with the group exhibition Art & Alienation and the SNSF-funded research project Real Abstractions: Reconsidering Realism’s Role for the Present (University of Fribourg and Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art), the lecture and …
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