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Behind The Screen
What is the relation between editions and performances? And how might performative art practices gain new access to replicable works of art? As a gallery, that produces and publishes editions for over 30 years, Klosterfelde Edition invited for its current exhibition BEHIND THE SCREEN the artists Mariana Castillo Deball, C茅cile B. Evans, Anta Helena Recke and Robin Rhode to react to these questions. In the course of the exhibition, every edition is being extended by a performative element.
An edition not only evokes performative moments within itself, but rather provokes such. The kites by Mariana Castillo Deball (*1975) can be characterized as objects of utility, that take up direct contact with the viewers and, by doing so, turn into immaterial gestures. As in many of her works, these kites connect different contexts, and function as repositories of knowledge, identities and histories. Their shape on the one hand refers to Korean fighting kites, whereas the calendar in the depicted crocodile quotes the Codex Borgia. It鈥檚 one of the few pre-Columbian Mexican manuscripts, that wasn鈥檛 destroyed in the 16th century. Apart from three other copies, the Codex Borgia is still in the possession of the Vatikan and therefore underlines the long overdue confrontation with its restitution. The exhibited kites also hold another story. As a sign of solidarity against gender-based violence, kites appeared during the International Women鈥檚 Day demonstrations on March 8, 2021 in Mexico City. Even Mexican artist Francisco Toledo used 43 kites to commemorate the murdered and missing students of Guerrero. In solidarity with the Zapatistas, the kites will for the first time rise up to the sky in the coming weeks. As a counter-colonial action, the Zapatistas currently travel on a boat from Mexico to Europe. The artist will support this journey with a part of the edition鈥檚 proceeds. In 2013, Mariana Castillo Deball received the price of the national gallery for young art in Berlin. Her work has been shown at documenta (13) in Kassel, among others. Daball鈥檚 exhibition Amarantus is on view until August 8, at Museum f眉r Gegenwartskunst Siegen.
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What is the relation between editions and performances? And how might performative art practices gain new access to replicable works of art? As a gallery, that produces and publishes editions for over 30 years, Klosterfelde Edition invited for its current exhibition BEHIND THE SCREEN the artists Mariana Castillo Deball, C茅cile B. Evans, Anta Helena Recke and Robin Rhode to react to these questions. In the course of the exhibition, every edition is being extended by a performative element.
An edition not only evokes performative moments within itself, but rather provokes such. The kites by Mariana Castillo Deball (*1975) can be characterized as objects of utility, that take up direct contact with the viewers and, by doing so, turn into immaterial gestures. As in many of her works, these kites connect different contexts, and function as repositories of knowledge, identities and histories. Their shape on the one hand refers to Korean fighting kites, whereas the calendar in the depicted crocodile quotes the Codex Borgia. It鈥檚 one of the few pre-Columbian Mexican manuscripts, that wasn鈥檛 destroyed in the 16th century. Apart from three other copies, the Codex Borgia is still in the possession of the Vatikan and therefore underlines the long overdue confrontation with its restitution. The exhibited kites also hold another story. As a sign of solidarity against gender-based violence, kites appeared during the International Women鈥檚 Day demonstrations on March 8, 2021 in Mexico City. Even Mexican artist Francisco Toledo used 43 kites to commemorate the murdered and missing students of Guerrero. In solidarity with the Zapatistas, the kites will for the first time rise up to the sky in the coming weeks. As a counter-colonial action, the Zapatistas currently travel on a boat from Mexico to Europe. The artist will support this journey with a part of the edition鈥檚 proceeds. In 2013, Mariana Castillo Deball received the price of the national gallery for young art in Berlin. Her work has been shown at documenta (13) in Kassel, among others. Daball鈥檚 exhibition Amarantus is on view until August 8, at Museum f眉r Gegenwartskunst Siegen.
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