yucolo.com :: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (T-B A21)

6. März 2008 – 26. Oktober 2008

Collection as Aleph

A collaboration with Kunsthaus Graz.
Curated by Adam Budak and Daniela Zyman.

The exhibition considers Borges’s favourite stylistic trope, structure en abîme as a spatial metaphor and rhizomatic device: here, the structural (and symbolic) endlessness of Kunsthaus Graz's architecture connects with an attempt to (mentally) navigate through temporal and spatial layers of T-B A21’s collection.

Structure en abîme belonged to the writer’s preferred visual arrangements of images: as a narrative structure, a trope and a spatial model, it poses a philosophical question about infinity or infinite periodic repetitions and by means of a baroque organization of space, it establishes an order that is in itself a visual paradox. According to a principle of endless inclusion, it modifies our belief in the truth of our perceptions and sets up a tension between what can be conceived logically and what can be concretely, materially or sensorily perceived. Like a well-drawn labyrinth, it is endless and, like a labyrinth, it sets up against the order of the world, which is impossible to discern, the conceptual order of the trope that corrects the imperfect notions that “realistic” thought has fostered. The notion of endless circularity is present in labyrinths as well as in mirrors and in dreams that include other dreams or the dreamer.

Collection as Aleph

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