We Will Live, We Will See
07 July - 14 August 2011
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WE WILL LIVE, WE WILL SEE
curated by Pavel S. Pyś
7 July 2011 - 14 August 2011
Mirosław Bałka, Carol Bove, Steven Claydon, Phil Collins, Aaron Curry,
Michael Dean, Ruth Ewan, Geoffrey Farmer, Omer Fast, Rachel Harrison,
Thomas Houseago, Marine Hugonnier, Sherrie Levine, Glenn Ligon, Edward
Lipski, Goshka Macuga, Matthew Monahan, Deimantas Narkevičius, Richard
Prince, Daniel Silver, Monika Sosnowska
The Zabludowicz Collection is delighted to announce We Will Live, We
Will See, an exhibition that brings together a number of international
artists whose practices examine the relationship between time, memory
and forgetting.
The exhibition, curated by Pavel S. Pyś, marks the culmination of the
first annual Zabludowicz Collection Curatorial Open. Pyś was selected in
March 2011 by a panel of judges comprised of Lisa Le Feuvre, James
Lingwood, Mark Rappolt and Anita Zabludowicz. He has been granted
unlimited access to the Zabludowicz Collection to realise the exhibition
and its accompanying publication and public programme.
Voicing accounts of lived experience ranging from the most personal and
intimate in character to those shared and collective in scope – We Will
Live, We Will See looks at ways of recalling and re-telling the past.
Comprising works in different media including sculpture, photography and
video installation, the exhibition presents objects and artifacts which
bear traces of the passing of time and act as entry points through
which we access history. Similarly, artworks may act as the lens through
which this past is reconfigured, reinterpreted and made relevant today.
We Will Live, We Will See draws upon such works to consider the past
not in terms of a normative ‘truth’, but rather in terms of unraveling,
replaying and remaking.
Destabilizing dominant chronologies and taxonomies of display is key to
the works of Steven Claydon, Rachel Harrison, Sherrie Levine and Richard
Prince. Their works look at the importance of taste and humour, fiction
and imagination while questioning assumed typologies and linear
accounts of time. The permanence of objects is a common preoccupation in
the works of Aaron Curry, Thomas Houseago, Matthew Monahan and Daniel
Silver. Invoking art historical references from classicism, modernist
sculpture and popular culture, these artists deal with the monumental
and the auratic nature of art and culture. Exploring methods and modes
of display is key to many of these plinth-based works, which blur the
boundaries between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture, question authenticity and
examine their own relationships with primitivism and exoticism. The
works of Mirosław Bałka, Phil Collins and Michael Dean explore the gap
between experience and retelling, producing and receiving. Brushing
collective narratives against the most intimate of stories exposes the
fallacy of universal accounts of experience.
We Will Live, We Will See takes into account the dangers of relying on
objects to illuminate the past, working with the ambiguity and openness
that characterises the multiplicity of voices and accounts of history.
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