Guided tour: Land(e)scapes. Recognizing Fragmentarity

The exhibition ‘Land(e)scapes. Recognising Fragmentarity’ follows artistic strategies in its examination of war, displacement, repression and flight. It designs mythological shelters, deconstructs ideologies, identifies gaps in the historiography and examines the fragments of devastated landscapes and bodies. In English and German translation A cooperation project with HALLE 14 – Centre for Contemporary ArtAbout the exhibition Bodies, both the single and the collective, remain connected to the landscapes they have experienced as their homes, even after people left them or the landscapes have become devastated. The injury of one entails the wounding of the others. Their surface may be physical but underneath their connection emerged from the experience of every day practises, grown infrastructures, learned languages, identities and sensations of safety. If this connection is torn apart – through war, ethnic cleansing, forced migration and the deprivation of self-determination, liminal corridors open up. They are places of refuge and survival for amputated memories, prophetic symbols and omens that oppose a self-appointed truth of sovereign power. But the cracks also house attempts to reconstruct fragments of history and in doing so have to rely on languages that have become obsolete. Artistic gestures address this lack and emptiness, assembling the fragments of present experience.

An exhibition with:
Nazik Armenakyan, Emrah Gökdemir, Armine Hovhannisyan, Tatsiana Karpachova, Oksana Kazmina, Piruza Khalapyan, Kateryna Lysovenko, Denis Pankratov, Aliaxey Tastou, Teta Tsybulnyk (ruїns collective)

Curated by: Kateryna Badianova, Susanna Gyulamiryan, Anna Karpenko

Image above: [Consequences of the war] surrounding areas of Shushi. 2020. Piruza Khalapyan, from the project „Unaddressed [fragmented] memory“

A co-operation project with HALLE 14 – Centre for Contemporary Art and weiterdenken. Heinrich Böll Stiftung Sachsen

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