ART
Esther Shalev-Gerz |
Written 30 January |
Tuesday 09 February, 12:00Jeu de Paume (Concorde), 75008 [map]Esther Shalev-Gerz
Over three decades
Esther Shalev-Gerz has consistently performed a process of unravelling particularities in order to reflect on the ways in which the generalities of history and memory are constructed. Working with a specific place, a certain moment in history, an urgent question, or a shared experience that resonates through history, Shalev-Gerz mines the personal in order to address and interrogate the ways in which the present is understood. Drawing on the fictions of history and speculations on the future, she amplifies the ethics of being invited to speak and being invited to listen. Hers is a powerful artistic practice that complicates how we understand our place in the world.
Shalev-Gerz’s survey exhibition at Jeu de Paume presents an exchange of ideas constructed through acts and encounters of communication. This gathering of works interrogates assumptions and opens the space between understanding and perception, embracing doubt and reframing what operates as a ‘given’ within a particular moment. This is an artistic practice making material the reciprocal relationship between remembering and forgetting, investigating how this affects both the perception of historical experience and the production of historical narrative. Shalev-Gerz’s works operate as paradoxical and incomplete entities that mutate in response to their conditions of display and to how they sit in relation to the world as the slow pace of historical change impacts on conduct and attitudes.
Photographs, objects and videos are grounded in an aesthetics that reflects acts of seeing, pointing to the beauty in the details of everyday perception. With an intense attention to the visual, they use the image to go beyond language in order to communicate the complexities of perception. These works offer not a reflected image of the world, rather one that contests what we think we know.
| What: | Esther Shalev-Gerz |
| When: | Tuesday 09 February, 12:00 |
| Where: | Jeu de Paume (Concorde), 1 place de la Concorde 75008 [map] |
| Transport: | Concorde |
| Cost: | 5 - 7EUR |
| Phone: | 01 47 03 12 50 |
| Web: | www.jeudepaume.org |
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