Displaced Fractures
on the fractures of architecture and its body
Exhibition in the Migros Museum for Contemporary Art in Zurich, December 11, 2010 – February 20, 2011
From time immemorial, art has possessed a sensitivity for all that is fragile, porous and vulnerable in humans. In this group exhibition, the fractures in human nature are not, however, negotiated directly through the body itself but through representative forms of architecture. The fractures and interfaces of buildings form metaphors for the fissures in human existence. The title “Displaced Fractures” derives from medicine and describes the phenomenon whereby bone fractures appear at a place other than where the main strain is. The term “displacement” is also found in psychology. The new galleries of the Migros Museum for Contemporary Art display primarily installations, room interventions and sculptures that examine this shifting of symptoms. There is a tension that dominates between form-denying and monumental shapes, between subjective and rational-formal gestures.
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For this joint project the Siemens Stiftung was fortunate in securing an outstanding partner – the Migros Museum for Contemporary Art.
Curated by Heike Munder (Migros Museum) and Thomas D. Trummer (Siemens Stiftung), the exhibition is presented in the new “Hubertus Exhibitions” gallery in the Albisrieden district of Zurich.
Displaced Fractures – on the fractures of architecture and its body
Artists
Phyllida Barlow, Tacita Dean, Emilie Ding, Klara Lidén, Ulrich Rückriem, Kilian Rüthemann, Oscar Tuazon, Klaus Winichner
Publication
A catalog will be published to accompany the exhibition.
Partners
Migros Museum for Contemporary Art and Siemens Stiftung
Curators
Heike Munder (Migros Museum for Contemporary Art), Thomas D. Trummer (Siemens Stiftung)
Venue
Migros Museum for Contemporary Art / Hubertus Exhibitions
Albisriederstraße 199a
CH-8047 Zurich, Switzerland
