Between the Images: Imaginable Experiences for Future Memories
Opening 25 October 2008
Cinemateket, Iaspis,
Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation,
Romanian Cultural Institute and wip:konsthall
When can we talk about the photographic and moving image as an agent? How can the image act and function in a time when many visual strategies have been disarmed or canonized?
With these questions as a starting point, the project “Between the Images” presents works in which artists explicitly use images to highlight or renegotiate political, social or aesthetic conventions.
In parallel to the digital revolution and the emergence of political theories that question the possibility for representation, a discussion has evolved that considers possibilities for the photographic and moving image to exist beyond depiction and documentation, which opens for new artistic strategies and applications.
Within the frame of “Between the Images”, through exhibitions, screenings, lectures, texts and discussions, we want to focus on the politics and possibilities of the image. With the starting point in a selection of contemporary as well as older works and with the film essay as a historical reference, “Between the Images” is a study of the image as negotiation today.
Petra Bauer, Kim Einarsson, Helena Holmberg
Exhibitions:
Iaspis
25 Oct – 9 Nov
Ion Grigorescu, Ivan Grubanov, Runo Lagomarsino, The Otolith Group and Ines Schaber
Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation
25 Oct – 7 Dec
VALIE EXPORT
Rumänska kulturinstitutet
25 Oct – 9 Jan
Guy Ben-Ner, Nanna Debois Buhl, Andrea Faciu, Daniel Knorr and Alex Villar
wip:konsthall
25 Oct – 1 Nov Harun Farocki
1 Nov – 8 Nov Miri Segal
8 Nov – 15 Nov The Otolith Group
15 Nov – 22 Nov Anri Sala
Text:
Annika Ruth Persson
For addresses, more information and the full programme: www.xposeptember.se
Between the Images is a project initiated by Xposeptember and presented in collaboration with Cinemateket, Iaspis, Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Romanian Cultural Institute and wip:konsthall.
The project is supported by Swedish National Council for Cultural Affairs, The Culture Administration of Stockholm and Stockholm County Council.
