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2024:12:21 18:06:00 Europe/AthensReconstructing Memories # 2 : On MediaReconstructing Memories # 2 : On Media - More informations on /events/event/5094-post-human-archaeologyCross section archiveSkafte Aymo-Boot, Maria Lalou
Rabih Mroué stages an alignment of perspectives, attempting an embodiment of a personal coordinate system of x, y, z and its signature on current history. The power of the gaze vs the control of the curated image projected on the retina has become a strategical tool for media authority over certain predefined narratives, significantly reinforcing the disorienting effect of the media. The controlled status of an image vs the shaken stability of a timeline points to the media as a dictating instrument of the articulation of history. An onlooker, a viewer, an observer, a spectator, a witness? Wordings of chosen potential perspectives on the motives behind this power of image control.
The installation The negotiation of perspective, is shaking the safe zone of 'an observer of a witness', with the spectator becoming a 'stand in' in the timeline of the events, in a choreographed embodiment of the power of an image.
An ensemble of video works by Rabih Mroué invites the spectator to take a position of a multitude of viewing. Only one person at a time can enter the usually inaccessible space of cross section archive to experience the works. The exhibition The negotiation of perspective is a one-off personal visual registration of the human eye.
The negotiation of perspective, by Rabih Mroue, consists of three viewing boxes with the videos As If Seen By a Bird Standing On a Cow (2018), The Fall of a Hair, Part 4: "Eye" vs "Eye" (2012), The Mediterranean Sea (2011). Viewers are invited to enter the space of cross section archive one by one to experience the works, daily 18:00-22:00. The video Too close but yet inaccessible, (2021) is on view from the public space of Mavromichali 102 & Isavron streets continuously during the exhibition period.
Reconstructing Memories is the first chapter of Post-Human Archaeology. It is a series of five solo presentations that together form the exhibition, approaching the theme from five different departure points. With an archaeology that is non-canonical and open-ended as method, it is playing with the perceived authority of the expert and allows for the dissection of a subject with an intuitive and personal approach. Reconstructing Memories invites the viewer to question not only the work and its staged contents, but also their own perception of reality. Running from November 2024 until March 2025, the program is composed of five communed installations, each presented for a period of two weeks in the space of cross section archive. The juncture of Reconstructing Memories On History, by visual artist Vangelis Vlahos (GR) is re-creating a forgotten but significant event that no-one witnessed. On Media by Rabih Mroue (LB), confronts the perspective of the viewers and the media as a tool of control over history's performance. On Politics, by the artist/architects collective [Pegy Zali, Panayotis Lianos, Christos-G Kritikos] (GR), narrating the story of a void observed through the filter of a politicised media reality and marked by a displaced urban object. On Nature by visual artist Nikos Arvanitis (GR) is excavating the collective urban mind to uncover traces of nature. On Language by visual artist Nicoline van Harskamp (NL) is archiving the embodiment our controlled nature.
Post-Human Archaeology is the annual theme of cross section archive 2024-25. An attempt to produce alternative understandings of early 21st century life and the truths it frames by applying a gaze with an origin outside of ourselves, a beyond-human gaze so to speak. A gaze that is not looking directly at the object of interest but rather at a version of reality that is out of focus or incomplete. In this processed reality we can expect to make finds that expand our understanding towards our being and the way we perceive ourselves.
Post-Human Archaeology & Reconstructing Memories is curated by Maria Lalou & Skafte Aymo-Boot.
Special thanks to: Lina Majdalanie and Sarmad Louis
Exhibition duration : 5th - 21st December 2024
Daily 18:00- 24.00. Viewing boxes accessible, one person at a time, 18:00 - 21:00.
Supported by and under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture
