Archive 2020 KubaParis

This margin will be your vantage point

Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian Qin, Hoi Kok, 2018, Installation; Alice dos Reis, The Real Estate Render Blackout, 2018, Video, HD / 6’37’’ / Color / silent; Sebastian Jefford, 98a (Cold Night), 2020, Polyurethane foam, acrylic, plastic
Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian Qin, Hoi Kok, 2018, Installation; Alice dos Reis, The Real Estate Render Blackout, 2018, Video, HD / 6’37’’ / Color / silent; Sebastian Jefford, 98a (Cold Night), 2020, Polyurethane foam, acrylic, plastic
Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian Qin, Hoi Kok, 2018, Installation; Alice dos Reis, The Real Estate Render Blackout, 2018, Video, HD / 6’37’’ / Color / silent; Sebastian Jefford, 98a (Cold Night), 2020, Polyurethane foam, acrylic, plastic; Hanne Lippard, Cunt, 2018, Draped silk-curtain
Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian Qin, Hoi Kok, 2018, Installation; Alice dos Reis, The Real Estate Render Blackout, 2018, Video, HD / 6’37’’ / Color / silent; Sebastian Jefford, 98a (Cold Night), 2020, Polyurethane foam, acrylic, plastic; Hanne Lippard, Cunt, 2018, Draped silk-curtain
Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian Qin, Hoi Kok, 2018, Installation
Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian Qin, Hoi Kok, 2018, Installation
Alice dos Reis, The Real Estate Render Blackout, 2018, Video, HD / 6’37’’ / Color / silent
Alice dos Reis, The Real Estate Render Blackout, 2018, Video, HD / 6’37’’ / Color / silent
Sebastian Jefford, 98a (Cold Night), 2020, Polyurethane foam, acrylic, plastic
Sebastian Jefford, 98a (Cold Night), 2020, Polyurethane foam, acrylic, plastic
Installation view of This margin will be your vantage point
Installation view of This margin will be your vantage point
Installation view of This margin will be your vantage point, 2020_ 1
Installation view of This margin will be your vantage point, 2020_ 1
Installation view of This margin will be your vantage point, 2020_ 2
Installation view of This margin will be your vantage point, 2020_ 2
Installation view of This margin will be your vantage point, 2020_3
Installation view of This margin will be your vantage point, 2020_3
Magali Reus, Sentinel (Bow and Shoulder), 2018, sprayed fibreglass and polyester resin, pigments, air brushed aluminium, embroidered custom weave viscose, polyester and cotton, sand cast aluminium, laser engraved leather, cotton twine, powder coated aluminium; Hanne Lippard, Good to talk, 2011, vinyl
Magali Reus, Sentinel (Bow and Shoulder), 2018, sprayed fibreglass and polyester resin, pigments, air brushed aluminium, embroidered custom weave viscose, polyester and cotton, sand cast aluminium, laser engraved leather, cotton twine, powder coated aluminium; Hanne Lippard, Good to talk, 2011, vinyl
Installation view of This margin will be your vantage point, 2020_4
Installation view of This margin will be your vantage point, 2020_4
Julie Becker Interior Corner #5, c-print, 1993
Julie Becker Interior Corner #5, c-print, 1993
Hanne Lippard, Cunt, 2018, draped silk-curtain
Hanne Lippard, Cunt, 2018, draped silk-curtain
Sebastian Jefford, Waste Poem, 2020, polyurethane foam, acrylic, plastic
Sebastian Jefford, Waste Poem, 2020, polyurethane foam, acrylic, plastic
Magali Reus, Sentinel (Bow and Shoulder), 2018, Sprayed fibreglass and polyester resin, pigments, air brushed aluminium, embroidered custom weave viscose, polyester and cotton, sand cast aluminium, laser engraved leather, cotton twine, powder coated aluminium
Magali Reus, Sentinel (Bow and Shoulder), 2018, Sprayed fibreglass and polyester resin, pigments, air brushed aluminium, embroidered custom weave viscose, polyester and cotton, sand cast aluminium, laser engraved leather, cotton twine, powder coated aluminium
Julie Becker, Whole (Notepad), 1999, c-type on aluminum
Julie Becker, Whole (Notepad), 1999, c-type on aluminum
Hanne Lippard, Good to talk, 2011, vinyl
Hanne Lippard, Good to talk, 2011, vinyl
Ndayé Kouagou, I don't want any of this to be part of any of that, 2020, performance and tape
Ndayé Kouagou, I don't want any of this to be part of any of that, 2020, performance and tape
Julie Becker, Corner #6, 1993, c-print on aluminum
Julie Becker, Corner #6, 1993, c-print on aluminum

Location

In Situ - Fabienne Leclerc

Date

11.09 –24.10.2020

Curator

Giulia Civardi and Taddeo Reinhardt

Photography

Marc Domage

Subheadline

Julie Becker, Sebastian Jefford, Ndayé Kouagou, Hanne Lippard, Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian Qin, Alice dos Reis, and Magali Reus.

Text

You were annotating the idea of a long elastic present that could include violence and passivity and patience as well as cities, as would a crystal of quartz. You played every card; you had your reasons. You were being internally photographed. - Cinema of the Present, Lisa Robertson To roam the margins is to play with the tension between what is imperceptible and what can be actualised. It can induce a sense of indeterminacy, a paralysis brought about by seeing life’s antagonism from multiple perspectives. It is a risky practice to fall out of sync with contemporary impulses for production and performance – one can get stuck and struggle to re-emerge. And yet, it also presents itself as an opportunity for world-building. Moments of latency allow for processes of maintenance, necessary for recovery. Such processes can occur when you wake up in the middle of the night and try to guess if the sky has already changed colour; a speculative potential to see gaps in the shifting grounds of the present. This margin will be your vantage point looks at liminal states and moments of suspension in everyday language, through works that interlace urban imaginaries and personal spaces. Operating at the meeting point between bodies, psychological states, architectural interiors, and urban realities, the exhibition investigates subtle gestures and brief interruptions that create staging-grounds for the negotiation of daily protocols. The seven artists in this exhibition offer worldviews that are both familiar and skewed, challenging our perception of the environments we inhabit. Some artworks offer pathways into moments of ecological and personal uncertainty (Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian Qin). Others uncover the constraints imposed by urban socio-economic systems, staging rooms where the body can loosen (Alice dos Reis, Julie Becker). Disembodied feelings and images from virtual spaces morph into architectures to be sensed differently (Hanne Lippard, Sebastian Jefford) while fantastical machines become portals (Magali Reus) and the floor a contact zone for dialogues on otherness (Ndayé Kouagou). As a clear distinction between physical and mental states blurs, different layers of social reality emerge. These artists not only outline the limits imposed by social and economic structures from intimate perspectives; they also engage in a world-making process, offering viewpoints on the complex negotiation of the self within ever-changing landscapes. The interstitial - that which is situated within but also in a separate segment - could be a temporary refuge, a mode of refusal, or a potential to change perspective and review the parameters that shape bodies and given realities.

Giulia Civardi and Taddeo Reinhardt