EMBODIED
An exhibition with works by: Katarzyna Badach and Alfredo Ramos Fernández, Yael Bartana, Jérôme Bel, Richard Billingham, Chim↑Pom, Tacita Dean, Coco Fusco, Louis Henderson, Samson Kambalu, Martha Rosler, Zina Saro-Wiwa, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
EMBODIED presents a series of encounters between documentary and performance. Seeking to go beyond the question of authenticity that is initially raised by this intersection, EMBODIED considers performance as a process of re-enactment, re-presentation, mediation, and of staging reality. The exhibition considers ideas such as the individual subject as a discursive (documentary) practice, counter-performances, exhibitionism, and unconscious performance.
Linking these various ideas together is an intimated questioning of the tension between fiction and reality within documentary. Rather than permitting the illusory ability of this genre to present a concrete reality, EMBODIED takes viewers beyond the here and now of the document and into an alternative temporality, one that is accessed via various performative devices which place the medium of the body at their core. The works in the exhibition therefore present the documented body as both a subject and an object; in action and acted upon.
Presented by Nikolaj Kunsthal & CPH:DOX
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