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Exhibition presented by mala voadora (Porto) in collaboration with Hošek Contemporary (Berlin).
Despite their intended glory, there is nothing as invisible in this world as a monument, wrote Austrian philosophical author Robert Musil in the 1920s. He claimed that since monuments are built to be seen and remembered, they eventually become unnoticeable while people pass by without giving them a single thought. “They are impregnated with something that repels attention, causing the glance to roll right off, like water droplets off an oilcloth, without even pausing for a moment.” In their collaborative project Invisível, Swiss artists Natascha Frioud and Gaël Epiney question why certain sculptures are forgotten, no longer considered or looked at, and if they could somehow be reconsidered.
Invisível unfolds the second stage of the project, initiated earlier this year. It follows Unsichtbar (‘invisible’ in German), an exhibition…
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Exhibition presented by mala voadora (Porto) in collaboration with Hošek Contemporary (Berlin).
Despite their intended glory, there is nothing as invisible in this world as a monument, wrote Austrian philosophical author Robert Musil in the 1920s. He claimed that since monuments are built to be seen and remembered, they eventually become unnoticeable while people pass by without giving them a single thought. “They are impregnated with something that repels attention, causing the glance to roll right off, like water droplets off an oilcloth, without even pausing for a moment.” In their collaborative project Invisível, Swiss artists Natascha Frioud and Gaël Epiney question why certain sculptures are forgotten, no longer considered or looked at, and if they could somehow be reconsidered.
Invisível unfolds the second stage of the project, initiated earlier this year. It follows Unsichtbar (‘invisible’ in German), an exhibition…
