WE FRAGMENT, COLLECT AND NARRATE
The juxtaposition of two collections sheds a special light on selected works from the FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais and the Kunstmuseum Thun. The exhibition focuses on a technique that is more than familiar to us in our everyday lives—the collecting, dismantling, and reassembling of knowledge, experiences, or images.
We live in an age of fragmentation: our daily lives are constantly interrupted by incoming phone calls, text messages, emails, or tweets; we are constantly exposed to a flood of fragmented information of all kinds thanks to the news, advertising, and the entertainment industry; we are constantly searching the internet for information and content. We inexorably absorb a wide variety of knowledge and use it to collage our explanations and ideologies, our very personal view of the world. It is therefore hardly surprising that this process also plays an important role in art. Time and again, artists dismantle existing works into individual parts and reassemble them; time and again, they combine thoughts or ideas that ostensibly have nothing in common. In this way, they create new contexts of meaning and enable new insights, but also reflect our reality, which is characterized by fragmentation.
We Fragment, Collect and Narrate juxtaposes a wide variety of works from the collections of FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais and Kunstmuseum Thun and examines the contemporary significance of collage, assemblage, and montage. The exhibition focuses not only on the physical act of “cut and paste,” but also examines how contemporary art responds to our complex, fast-paced, and confusing society.
Participating artists:
Pawel Althamer, Francis Baudevin, Carol Bove, Marcel Broodthaers, Davide Cascio, Jeremy Deller, Diana Dodson, Haris Epaminonda, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Hans Gerber, Ingo Giezendanner, Felix Gmelin, Monica Ursina Jäger, Hella Jongerius, Scott King, Reto Leibundgut, Christian Marclay, Josephine Meckseper, Chantal Michel, Claudia & Julia Müller, Sarah Ortmeyer, Man Ray, Giacomo Santiago Rogado, Lorenzo Salafia, Joachim Schmid, Dominik Stauch, Joëlle Tuerlinckx
Curated by Sayoko Nakahara (FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais)
Co-curated by Petra Giezendanner and Helen Hirsch (Kunstmuseum Thun)
In collaboration with
FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais
