18 January 2007 – 29 April 2007

Exile of the Imaginary - Politics Aesthetics Love

With works by Andrea Geyer, Ken Gonzales-Day, Sharon Hayes, Adrià Julià, LTTR, Dorit Margreiter, Stephanie Taylor, Kerry Tribe, Bruce Yonemoto, and Dolores Zinny/Juan Maidagan

Can love be a critical “medium” in politically turbulent times? The exhibition "Exile of the Imaginary" conceived by American art historian Juli Carson focuses on this question. "The Lover’s Discourse" (1977) by French philosopher Roland Barthes offers a theoretical basis, and also lends the exhibition its title. The book confronts us with a montage of texts from the author and from world literature on the discourse of love. The order of the “fragments” follows the alphabet, but otherwise, they are selected subjectively. The author himself introduces this book as a “portrait” not in a psychological but in a structural sense. Consequently, the critic is analyst and subject of analysis in one. Juli Carson now reflects upon this co-presence of a (quasi-) scientific procedure and subjectivity, in an exhibition specifically devoted to this thematic and featuring works of a younger generation of artists who distinguish themselves through conceptual practices.

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