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Centre d'art contemporain - la synagogue de Delme•Jul 06, 2024 — Dec 20, 2024
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The art of Raphaela Vogel portrays a strangeness that is very specific to our period, the kind in which hopes – which cannot really be projected into the future without clashing with a kind of techno-politico-environmental apocalypse – find nothing better than to turn to the past, its myths, nostalgia, and “golden age”. In which we cling to an inverted, retrofuturist, and hence illusory promise. Already described as neo-romantic1 in the Germanic sense of the term, her art expresses this mood through the intermediary of found objects of various origins, sometimes “antiques”, used as they are, in singularly structured installations. These recuperated elements of random value are often associated with more recent technological apparatuses. These assemblages sometimes become multimedia installations, projecting videos in which the artist stages herself in various environments, ranging from domestic space to vast outdoor landscapes. This entanglement between past and future tends to...More
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Centre d'art contemporain - la synagogue de Delme•Jul 06, 2024 — Dec 20, 2024
Press Release
The art of Raphaela Vogel portrays a strangeness that is very specific to our period, the kind in which hopes – which cannot really be projected into the future without clashing with a kind of techno-politico-environmental apocalypse – find nothing better than to turn to the past, its myths, nostalgia, and “golden age”. In which we cling to an inverted, retrofuturist, and hence illusory promise. Already described as neo-romantic1 in the Germanic sense of the term, her art expresses this mood through the intermediary of found objects of various origins, sometimes “antiques”, used as they are, in singularly structured installations. These recuperated elements of random value are often associated with more recent technological apparatuses. These assemblages sometimes become multimedia installations, projecting videos in which the artist stages herself in various environments, ranging from domestic space to vast outdoor landscapes. This entanglement between past and future tends to...More
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