Fragments&Absences is an exhibition plus a ten-day festival with artworks by Marie van Berchem, Fabien Clerc, Senam Okudzeto, and Uriel Orlow, as well as performances by Vana Kostayola and Sofia Kouloukouri.
Fragments&Absences reunites artworks from the exhibition Exotic? Switzerland Looking Outward in the Age of Enlightenment, which opened one year ago at the Palais de Rumine in Lausanne and presented research carried out at the University of Bern.
The contemporary artworks gathered in Fragments&Absences question the notions of memory, absence, and survival. Through a participatory installation named Bateauthèque, Marie van Berchem seeks to facilitate access to decolonial knowledge and create a space for thinking about anti-racist, feminist, and ecological issues. Fabien Clerc appropriates and redesigns a Limoges porcelain dinner service to commemorate the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). The performance Women Telling the Future (Vana Kostayola and Sofia Kouloukouri) invites visitors to a coffee fortune-telling session in order to perform a series of symbolic journeys of introspection. In her film Disappearing Africans, Senam Okudzeto sheds light on the erasure of African people and their voices from history. Uriel Orlow’s installation Geraniums Are Never Red emphasizes the ubiquity of colonial heritage in our daily lives and the blind spots of our (self)-perception.
More here: https://www.grandpalais.ch/fragments-absences/
Fragments&Absences is an exhibition plus a ten-day festival with artworks by Marie van Berchem, Fabien Clerc, Senam Okudzeto, and Uriel Orlow, as well as performances by Vana Kostayola and Sofia Kouloukouri.
Fragments&Absences reunites artworks from the exhibition Exotic? Switzerland Looking Outward in the Age of Enlightenment, which opened one year ago at the Palais de Rumine in Lausanne and presented research carried out at the University of Bern.
The contemporary artworks gathered in Fragments&Absences question the notions of memory, absence, and survival. Through a participatory installation named Bateauthèque, Marie van Berchem seeks to facilitate access to decolonial knowledge and create a space for thinking about anti-racist, feminist, and ecological issues. Fabien Clerc appropriates and redesigns a Limoges porcelain dinner service to commemorate the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). The performance Women Telling the Future (Vana Kostayola and Sofia Kouloukouri) invites visitors to a coffee fortune-telling session in order to perform a series of symbolic journeys of introspection. In her film Disappearing Africans, Senam Okudzeto sheds light on the erasure of African people and their voices from history. Uriel Orlow’s installation Geraniums Are Never Red emphasizes the ubiquity of colonial heritage in our daily lives and the blind spots of our (self)-perception.
More here: https://www.grandpalais.ch/fragments-absences/