What continues
Every year during the Christmas shopping period, two long-standing luxury department stores in Paris attempt to outdo each other with spectacular window displays. They stage elaborately designed scenes with animated puppets, providing a glimpse of capitalism dreaming. On a sugar cane plantation in Mauritius, workers tend to the extensive gardens surrounding a 19th-century colonial chateau. Owned to this day by the same family, the estate is now a popular tourist attraction. At an air force base in Columbus, Mississippi, a pilot in training undergoes a vertigo test. He performs various exercises while his body spins in circles, first slowly, then faster.
Terms like disruption, crisis and catastrophe are used to describe the present as a time of upheaval. In the face of deep ruptures, however, we can lose sight of the continuities that shape day-to-day experiences, through which institutions, social structures and power relations are stabilised and reproduced. The exhibition What Continues looks at continuities 鈥� at routines, workflows, habits and rituals. They are embedded in social orders that are furthermore reflected in visual relationships: in what ways are supposedly uninvolved observers entangled in violent continuities?
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Every year during the Christmas shopping period, two long-standing luxury department stores in Paris attempt to outdo each other with spectacular window displays. They stage elaborately designed scenes with animated puppets, providing a glimpse of capitalism dreaming. On a sugar cane plantation in Mauritius, workers tend to the extensive gardens surrounding a 19th-century colonial chateau. Owned to this day by the same family, the estate is now a popular tourist attraction. At an air force base in Columbus, Mississippi, a pilot in training undergoes a vertigo test. He performs various exercises while his body spins in circles, first slowly, then faster.
Terms like disruption, crisis and catastrophe are used to describe the present as a time of upheaval. In the face of deep ruptures, however, we can lose sight of the continuities that shape day-to-day experiences, through which institutions, social structures and power relations are stabilised and reproduced. The exhibition What Continues looks at continuities 鈥� at routines, workflows, habits and rituals. They are embedded in social orders that are furthermore reflected in visual relationships: in what ways are supposedly uninvolved observers entangled in violent continuities?
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