ARTISTS:
Vyacheslav Akhunov, KP Brehmer, Shahab Fotouhi, Igor Grubić, Nilbar Güreş, Vlatka Horvat, Jesse Jones, Runo Lagomarsino, Marina Naprushkina, Trevor Paglen, Lisi Raskin, Canan Şenol, Walid Sadek
CURATORS:
WHW
Tanas – Space for Contemporary Turkish Art, Berlin
Heidestr. 50 – 10557 Berlin
12/6 – 7/8/2009
The exhibition Red Thread is conceived as a ‘prologue’ to 11th International Istanbul Biennial (12 September – 8 November, 2009) entitled What Keeps Mankind Alive?.
Red Thread exhibition presents artistic positions related to Biennial themes and process of its inception, creating fragmented narratives dealing with questions of auto-histories, self-positioning, post-colonial context, dataesthetics, corporeality, religious hypocrisy, reinterpretation of (art) history and critical artistic engagements in non-central zones of Western project of modernism.
The title Red Thread refers to the continuity of aspiration to imagine in reality the consequences of a new possibility repressed by the dominant state of affairs, as the guiding principle that threads and circulates through times and places. The thread may stretch, meander or bifurcate, but it never breaks. The ‘Red Thread’ is a metaphor for invisible but vital relations that in continuo link up different endeavors and explorations regardless of their spatio-temporal determinations.
