Currently RE: is working on a new exhibition. The exhibition is a production of vzw Punctum. The working title for this project is A Group Show. It will take place September 2010 at Croxhapox. Below you can find a short text about the project. Any news or info concerning the show will be posted on this site so please pay us a visit in the near future…

 

A Group Show (working title)

 

Artworks: Rather random intervals of an intellectual process that can be lifted, continued, changed and destroyed infinitely. (from the ‘cahiers’ by Paul Valéry)

 

On nearly all photographs something is depicted. A lot can be said about that something on or in a photo. One cannot be oblivious about that. However, the photo by itself is also something, a physical object with tactile qualities, which can come to life in a space. Next to the traditional idea of the photo as means of representation, it can also – as an object – become part of a plastic presentation.

 

The exhibition A Group Show focuses on an alternative approach to the photographic object. It emphasizes the way images are being incorporated by artists, and how photography is used in an (often associative) game of construction and deconstruction of the medium itself. The exposition wishes to accentuate the material and spatial features of the image instead of its representational values. It brings together people with an investigating attitude towards the medium photography and creates a context in which there’s plenty of room for discussion and experiment.

 

A Group Show should be seen as a temporary ‘working environment’, in which curators and artists discuss about the notion of ‘space’. The artists are being invited, starting from their autonomous work, to engage in the realization of the exposition and to participate in a dialogue on how to construct a meaningful whole.

 

A Group Show will take place, September 2010, in Croxhapox, a multidisciplinary and experimental art house and an open working place for contemporary art, situated in Ghent. Croxhapox has no commercial activities, nor does it represent any artists, art disciplines or genres. It aims at shedding some light on the importance of artistic research and content. A Group Show finds herein a mutual endeavour.

 

Participating artists:
Edward Clydesdale Thomson (UK), Sara Deraedt (BE) , Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky (CH) , Anouk Kruithof (NL) , Alexandra Leykauf (DE) , Valérie Mannaerts (B) , Michèle Matyn (BE) , Saskia Noor van Imhoff (NL) , Jimmy Robert (FR) , Dominique Somers (BE) , Tania Theodorou (EL) , Kathleen Vinck (BE) , Claudia Weber (DE)

 

Publication:
As we clarified in our statement, ‘A Group Show’ should not be regarded as a curatorial exhibition but rather as a temporary working environment. The dialogues and the process leading up to this exhibition are regarded as an important part of the exhibition, because they have the possibility to change the process itself. Therefore we’d like to document and publish extracts from this process as an autonomous part of the exhibition in collaboration with Boris Van Den Eynden and Lieven Van Speybroeck of the Wim Wolkman Publisher Publishing Publish Company.