Exhibition opening next Saturday at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin:
Cyprien Gaillard The Recovery of Discovery
Preserving a monument goes hand in hand with destroying it. In order to preserve architecture, cultural monuments and relics, they are often re-located, allowing urban displacement to arise – leading to the disappearance of the concept of autonomous geography and archeology. The dislocation of a monument does not only alter the history of its original location, but also leads to a radical re-interpretation of the monument itself.
For his exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, Cyprien Gaillard (born in 1980 in Paris) has created a new work containing complex implications, which will only be revealed through an act of complete defiance. Similar to public amnesia, lost in the hopeless interaction with the monument, the gradual destruction becomes a part of the aesthetic of resistance.
Cyprien Gaillard The Recovery of Discovery
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Auguststrasse 69, 10117 Berlin
Opening: Saturday, March 26, 5 pm – 2 am
Dates: March 27 – May 22, 2011
