STRANGE, FAMILIAR AND UNFORGOTTEN
16 April - 20 July 2005
Strange, Familiar and Unforgotten, 2005
(exhibition view, Brussels, image Rainer Oldendorf)
After operating 9 years in Luxembourg the gallery is moving to Brussels. For the opening of the new space, the gallery invited both artists that it currently represents and those collaborating with Erna Hécey for the first time.
"Strange, Familiar and Unforgotten"
highlights works by: Eleanor Antin - Robert Barry - Pierre Bismuth
- Marcel Broodthaers - Sophie Calle - Peter Friedl - Kendell
Geers & S-338 - Liam Gillick - Johan Grimonprez - Marie-Ange
Guilleminot - Olivier Millagou - Ivan Moudov - Olaf Nicolai
- Rainer Oldendorf - Nedko Solakov - Jana Sterbak - Uri Tzaig
- Jan Wenzel
In a playful connection to the history of the gallery itself, the exhibition endeavors to reveal the different ways in which artists explore and question history and memory in their work.
The consciousness of continuity and the understanding of a constant reactivation of the past are important concerns in the work of many contemporary artists.
The strategies employed by artists go far beyond the notions of repetition and recycling, enlarging the background of historical references and offering a more complex relationship to the past.
A vast range of artistic positions is represented in the exhibition. Some artworks interconnect not only different moments of the past, but also various local histories belonging to specific places. Others "reinvent" history by bringing to light (un)forgotten facts and events. No matter what strategies are employed, in each case the very idea of history and our place in it are called into question.
*The title refers to the work of the
neurologist Israel Rosenfield "The Strange, Familiar and Forgotten:
An Anatomy of Consciousness" (1992) |
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