More Than This
30.11.2013-12.01.2014
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Dora Garcia ~ Ewa Partum ~ Yorgos Sapountzis ~
The narrator witnesses a duel between two guys on the beach, while at the same time trying to light his cigarette. There, near the sea, he describes the specific moment where one becomes aware of an unconscious and almost absurd knowledge of the self in the world. What seems like madness is revealed in a split second as a logical outcome of our lives. Everything makes sense in its illogicality. Roberto Bolaño calls those ‘moments of superlucidity’ in his book Savage Detectives, which follows the adventures and vagabondages of two young visceral-realist poets. These moments appear as quickly as they disappear. At first the narrator locates these moments as signs of a miraculous and pointless innocence, but in the next line he adds: ‘But that’s not it. That’s not it’. The glimpse that these moments present can hardly be defined linguistically. While looking for a lighter and glimpsing into the self and the world, the signifying chain of language is broken, unknotted.
Could meaning suddenly come as an intonation, an overtone, a resonance?
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This exhibition is co-curated with Ovul Durmusoglu.
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Dora Garcia lives and works in Barcelona. Her artistic practice involves figures of speech and literature, politics, in extended performances and installation works that often include documentations and public participation. She was born in 1965 in Valladolid, Spain.
Ewa Partum is a poet and an artist. She was born in Poland where she has been working through the 1960s and 1970s, exploring language as material and developed a body of video and image/text works addressing feminism and politics. She is now based in Berlin.
Yorgos Sapountzis (born in 1976) comes from Athens and lives in Berlin. His performative sculptures evolve in public spaces, adressing by their materiality - textiles, flags, poles - and mise en scène a mythical, prelinguistic substrate.
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We would like to thank the artists as well as ProjecteSD, Barcelona and Museum of Modern Art Warsaw.
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Dora Garcia ~ Ewa Partum ~ Yorgos Sapountzis ~
The narrator witnesses a duel between two guys on the beach, while at the same time trying to light his cigarette. There, near the sea, he describes the specific moment where one becomes aware of an unconscious and almost absurd knowledge of the self in the world. What seems like madness is revealed in a split second as a logical outcome of our lives. Everything makes sense in its illogicality. Roberto Bolaño calls those ‘moments of superlucidity’ in his book Savage Detectives, which follows the adventures and vagabondages of two young visceral-realist poets. These moments appear as quickly as they disappear. At first the narrator locates these moments as signs of a miraculous and pointless innocence, but in the next line he adds: ‘But that’s not it. That’s not it’. The glimpse that these moments present can hardly be defined linguistically. While looking for a lighter and glimpsing into the self and the world, the signifying chain of language is broken, unknotted.
Could meaning suddenly come as an intonation, an overtone, a resonance?
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This exhibition is co-curated with Ovul Durmusoglu.
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Dora Garcia lives and works in Barcelona. Her artistic practice involves figures of speech and literature, politics, in extended performances and installation works that often include documentations and public participation. She was born in 1965 in Valladolid, Spain.
Ewa Partum is a poet and an artist. She was born in Poland where she has been working through the 1960s and 1970s, exploring language as material and developed a body of video and image/text works addressing feminism and politics. She is now based in Berlin.
Yorgos Sapountzis (born in 1976) comes from Athens and lives in Berlin. His performative sculptures evolve in public spaces, adressing by their materiality - textiles, flags, poles - and mise en scène a mythical, prelinguistic substrate.
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We would like to thank the artists as well as ProjecteSD, Barcelona and Museum of Modern Art Warsaw.
