Francois Bucher, Forever Live: The Case of K. Gun, 2006. Video still. 17:51. Courtesy the artist and proyectos monclova, Mexico City
Fault Lines
6 December 2012 – 16 February 2013
at SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Montréal
Artists: Yael Bartana, Bertolt Brecht, François Bucher, Sophie Castonguay, Angela Melitopoulos & Maurizio Lazzarato
Curated by Pip Day
The exhibition Fault Lines/ Lignes de faille presents work that focuses on the power of speech, particularly in relation to dominant institutional discourse. Peopled with characters who come up against mechanisms of control of all sorts, work in the exhibition explores territorial, judicial and psychoanalytical grey areas: potential productive zones where alternative modes of resistance and of subjectivity can be constructed.
Exploring both historical and present-day political paradigms, imposed forms of governance and established notions of citizenry are revised. The work in the exhibition offers glimpses of the potential for generating alternative models of political participation, critical to the opening of conceptions of sovereignty and of the political self. [read the full text here]
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Yael Bartana, And Europe Will Be Stunned, 2006. Video still. Courtesy the artist, Annet Gelink Gallery Amsterdam, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Angela Melitopoulos & Maurizio Lazzarato, Assemblages, 2010. Video Still. Courtesy the artists