Exhibition
The exhibition took place from 31 October 2008 to 27 May 2009.
DOUBLE FACE
The VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna, presented the group exhibition DOUBLE FACE in the Vertical Gallery from 31 October 2008 to 27 May 2009.
With the exhibition Double Face at the Vertical Gallery of the VERBUND head office, the VERBUND COLLECTION took part in the international event “Month of Photography” for the first time in November 2008.
Which strategies of roleplay do artists use to get away from societal norms? The exhibition Double Face at the Vertical Gallery showed aesthetic strategies of the transforming subject and focused on the interplay between the construction, diversification and fragmentation of identities. "Je est un autre" - "I is another" – this famous quote by Arthur Rimbaud about the fundamental difference within each subject was considered a motto and thematic thread for the presented artworks.
Curator:
Curated by Gabriele Schor, founding director of the VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna
Team of the VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna
Veronika Mader – curatorial assistant
Barbara Wünsch – curatorial assistant
Artists
DOUBLE FACE
Kate Gilmore | Aneta Grzeszykowska | Birgit Jürgenssen | Suzy Lake | Urs Lüthi | Laura Ribero | Cindy Sherman | Hannah Wilke | David Wojnarowicz | Francesca Woodman
VERTIKALE GALERIE der SAMMLUNG VERBUND
Am Hof 6a | 1010 Wien
Insights into the exhibition DOUBLE FACE
Construction of identity
The exhibition contain photographs and videos by Urs Lüthi, Birgit Jürgenssen, Francesca Woodman, Cindy Sherman, Suzy Lake, Hannah Wilke and David Wojnarowicz in dialogue with more current positions by Aneta Grzeszykowska, Laura Ribero and Kate Gilmore. The construction of identities has been around in art for decades, although different aesthetic strategies are used to process them. For example, Laura Ribero and Aneta Grzeszykowska make reference to Cindy Sherman’s role-plays and focus in their own way on the clichéd presentations of women in the media. These role-plays form the methodical foundation for escaping societally specified roles through a range of attempts and – as the philosopher Gilles Deleuze says – to transform the “incarcerated self” in the process.
Interesting links
Press release
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