Follies, Manifold: Gabriel Lester—Haegue Yang at Bonner Kunstverein “Folly,” a term borrowed from landscape architecture, refers to an eccentric or historicizing garden device, a small structure serving no purpose other than to animate the landscape and activate fantasy within the viewer. In the exhibition Follies, Manifold: Gabriel Lester—Haegue Yang, two artists have been brought together who—via this architectural element—deal in their installations with forms of the theatrical and the activation of the viewer in space. Both artists continually return to experimental formats that challenge the conventions of exhibition configuration and take on the theme of installation in relation to theater and cinema. In their exhibition at the Bonner Kunstverein, Lester (b. 1972, lives in Amsterdam) and Yang (b. 1971, lives in Berlin and Seoul) present two expansive installations that, next to their visual, tactile and acoustic qualities, also incorporate participatory elements. e-flux/announcements/follies-manifold-gabriel-lester%E2%80%94haegue-yang/
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 21:00:00 +0000
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