Bewitched System, CA2M, Madrid

Symposium: A Bewitched system

The exorcising role of images

Agency, Aurora Fernández Polanco, Dora García, Fernando García-Dory, Avery Gordon, Tamar Guimaraes, Joachim Koester, Maurizio Lazzarato, Marie-José Mondzain, Jalal Toufic, Eulalia Valldosera

Directed by Vincent Meessen and Pablo Martínez

CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo
Av. Constitución 23
28931 Móstoles, Madrid, Spain

www.ca2m.org

Un-scene II, Wiels, Brussels

Un-Scene II is the second edition of what is now a triennial tradition at WIELS, an integral part of its ongoing research into the practices and questions that animate the artistic life around the institution. While featuring twelve artists working in sculpture, installation, performance, photography, painting, and video, the exhibition brings together a suite of idiosyncratic practices that seemed, with their specific idioms, to draw on and put into perspective the larger questions driving art making in Belgium today.
Artists :
Nel Aerts, Harold Ancart, Abel Auer, Olivier Foulon, Steinar Haga Kristensen, Gerard Herman, Dorota Jurczak, Vincent Meessen, Sophie Nys, Eléonore Saintagnan, Michael Van den Abeele, Peter Wächtler

A Blind Spot, HKW, Berlin

Exhibition

A BLIND SPOT

31.05.-01.07.2012 | Wed-Mon and holidays 11-19 h
Admission: 5 €/3 € | Mon free (Mon 25.6. closed) 

The blind spot of a photograph refers to something not visible or shown but nonetheless latent in the image. Dismissing the dominant pictorial regime, the images in “A Blind Spot” preserve an openness and indeterminacy that precludes reducing them to a description or illustration of a specific reality. This is the point of departure for questioning the documentary aspect in contemporary artistic and photographic practices.

The exhibition, curated by Catherine David, includes works by : Eric Baudelaire, Elisabetta Benassi, David Goldblatt, Hassan Khan, Joachim Koester, Vincent Meessen, Olaf Nicolai, Efrat Shvily, Jeff Wall and Christopher Williams.