A Portrait in Fragments
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf•Jun 29, 2024 — Sep 22, 2024
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A Portrait in Fragments is a reflection on biographical spaces, memory, and the physical and immaterial traces that the self leaves behind in the world. The group exhibition explores the plurality, multifacetedness, and porosity of biographical experience, which unfolds in moments of introspection and self-observation, but also in the encounter with external (and imagined) worlds and with others. It is this double movement – between intimacy and externalization, and between the gaze unto oneself and the gaze unto (fictional) others – that is repeatedly observed and taken up in the exhibition. The psychoanalytic concept of extimacy refers on the one hand to the intimacy of what is external, foreign, and non-identical to us, and on the other to the desire of the inner self to externalize, expose, and perform itself in the external world. The exhibited works thus locate the biographical in different places: at times it is found in psychic depth and imagined...More
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A Portrait in Fragments
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf•Jun 29, 2024 — Sep 22, 2024
Press Release
A Portrait in Fragments is a reflection on biographical spaces, memory, and the physical and immaterial traces that the self leaves behind in the world. The group exhibition explores the plurality, multifacetedness, and porosity of biographical experience, which unfolds in moments of introspection and self-observation, but also in the encounter with external (and imagined) worlds and with others. It is this double movement – between intimacy and externalization, and between the gaze unto oneself and the gaze unto (fictional) others – that is repeatedly observed and taken up in the exhibition. The psychoanalytic concept of extimacy refers on the one hand to the intimacy of what is external, foreign, and non-identical to us, and on the other to the desire of the inner self to externalize, expose, and perform itself in the external world. The exhibited works thus locate the biographical in different places: at times it is found in psychic depth and imagined...More
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