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What Remains is Tomorrow (Paperback)
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What Remains is Tomorrow (Paperback)
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Loot Price R82
Discovery Miles 820
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Taking their cue from Okwui Enwezor’s title for the 56th
International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia, All the
world’s futures, Rose and Till present an array of works by artists
who are deeply invested in local iterations of power, freedom, and
civil liberty. The curators wish not only to represent recent,
important work from South Africa, but also to set in motion a
complex and dynamic debate about the relationship between the
contemporary moment and the narratives of the past. With this in
mind, they have sought ways of inserting new works into a series of
historic moments without, in any way, making those moments explicit
or suggesting a crass opposition to or identification with history.
Rather, they see—and seek to represent—the past as an alluvial
undertow in South Africa’s fractured and multivocal present, a
stream of dreams, desires, and memories that frequently boil to the
surface in ways both useful and destructive. The contemporary works
on the exhibition pose a series of counter moves. Some are little
interested in history and focus instead on ruptures in the present.
Some embed themselves in regurgitated narratives of liberation and
national identity with the view to unsettling the certainties of
these narratives. Some, through their representation of the fraught
particularities and singularities of individual lives, interrogate
the grand myths of democracy and nation building. Some are subtle
meditations on loss or escape or hope; others, strident refusals of
the normative. Given the strength of the works to be presented, the
curators face the challenge of saying too much or offering too
confused an experience of the works and their disparate
imperatives. They thus bring to bear on the conceptualising of this
exhibition, their combined experience—from work in the public
sector, the management of museums and biennales, curatorship,
architecture, gallery and museum design—of locating and
communicating a strong but multilayered curatorial idea that
encourages critical debate and brings fresh insights to our own
particular contemporary moment.
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