Risk has always accompanied (artistic) production in aesthetic, conceptual, economic, and social ways. Galerie Charim puts up for negotiation this intensification of “art and life” with an exhibition by artist Roberta Lima. The transformational potential of discrepancy, as the counterpart of the power inherent to the gaze, has this performative installation oscillating between aspects that are past/present, revoked/desired, large/small, prosaic/unusual, close/far, that relate to art/life.
Artist
Roberta Lima (BR)Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein
An art historian and curator, she has been the head of the Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna since 2011. She curated numerous international exhibitions, amongst them Dieter Roth. Printed, Pressed, Bound, Graphic Arts Collection of the Albertina and Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia (2000), SynChroniCity, Cairo Biennale 11 (2008) and Deep Water Horizon, University Art Gallery San Diego, UCSD (2010). She is the author and editor of a large number of texts and publications, e.g. Performanz und ihre räumlichen Bedingungen, Perspektiven einer Kunstgeschichte, Böhlau 2012.
Charim Galerie Wien
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