The exhibition thus points to the deleted ‘other’ of contemporary and historical practices of constructing the visible. Continuous reaccentuation of the Deleted produces the eerie effect of a mundane transgression, of witnessing the representation of the unrepresented.
Suffused with speculation and commentary, technical drawings and architectural models invite viewers’ eyes to rest within the comforting space of invention, marked by oversight and omission. The 18th century plantation Monticello is resurrected within the digital realm, hinting at the dubious possibility of a historical continuity of a war on the perceptibility of labour. Digital network technology enters into a material communion with vintage service carts and financial signifiers.
These juxtapositions of historical and digital materials seduce and irritate the beholder, until contemporary practices of seeing and unseeing emerge in their historical specificity.
Under the newly sceptical gaze, existing visual regiments are destabilized, offering a glimpse at the possibility of alternative systems of distributing and reassembling the visible.
Artist talk with Elli Kuruş – Sunday, 29th of May at 6 pm.
The exhibition is open until Sunday.
Working hours: 26th of May 12-19, 27th and 28th of May 15-20.
Elli Kuruş is a Leipzig-based collective artist, 44% complete. Her practice spans artistic and curatorial approaches that converge into installations, videos, sculptures, performance lectures, and text productions. Investigating the agency of the things around her, she critically examines the development of media and technology, reading the present as material history.
Production and exhibition was funded by Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen.
Elli Kuruş is invited as InterCity/SwitchCity – a project by KKW-Leipzig, Pogon Zagreb and funded by Goethe Institut Zagreb, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia and City of Zagreb
