Modernity expanded: Lyon Biennale (part 1)
Contemporary Art | The 13th Lyon Biennale is the first part of a reflection on the word « modern » launched by Thierry Raspail, continuing over the next two biennales. This year’s is entitled « Modern Life » , and in it curator Ralph Rugoff, the American director of London’s Hayward Gallery, examines present time in the concentrated world space.
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Détail affiche 13e Biennale de Lyon
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The 61 selected artists, down 20% from the last biennale, represent 5 continents and respond through works that deal in mutation, uncertainty, excess and fear, as well as the emotions that come out of these themes. Generally speaking, Western questions regarding modernity and modernisms are recontextualized, inversed, or diluted in the complexity and multiplicity of today’s approaches. Three major axes structure our read :
- Document as medium :
Modernity in the West was born in the wake of the Industrial Revolution in Europe during a period of colonization, but former territories and colonized countries are now proposing new readings of their own history : emerging modernities that affirm a break with Eurocentric modernity. Artists […]
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