Monday, February 28th, 2022, 7pm
TRANSITION EXHIBITION
Paz Guevara and Saba Innab
The talk is already available on our Youtube channel.
Image: Saba Innab, Study for Display, 2021
Transition Exhibition
To what extent can the exhibition be a transitional model that instead of reaffirming itself sets questions in motion, unsettling its current condition? Transition Exhibition confronts the colonial legacy of the collection of expressionist artist Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and at the same time, it attempts to overcome the asymmetrical power structures and colonial continuities in its narratives, categories and perspectives. In this talk, curator Paz Guevara will present and discuss how Transition Exhibition problematizes the format of museum collection exhibitions, which are traversed by Western colonial structures and violence, and will present the interventions by contemporary artists that question those legacies, while offering propositions for alternative narratives and spaces for agencies and community. Artist and architect Saba Innab will talk about the process of thinking, the questions and the strategies forming the Display, a spatial strategy that scrutinize the power of exhibitions to reveal and to hide, to order and to hierarchise. While Innab’s exhibition display becomes a spatial intervention that interrupts and breaks with the symmetry of the building and invites visitors to modify their movement in the space, the structure of two semi-circle houses the works and creates a place for people and performances. The Display intends to reverse the gaze, where the works are repositioned as subjects looking at us.