Group exhibition with works by Rehaf Al Batniji, Sven Augustijnen, Nidhal Chamekh, Banele Khoza, Naeem Mohaiemen, Peter Piller, and Oraib Toukan. Some images stay with us because they resonate with our experiences. They seem connected to the present situation as well as past events, materializing a point where past and present collide. However, our empathy towards the images around us is ambivalent, driven by a desire to know what's happening, yet sometimes feeling the need to look away, as if these situations pose a threat to our happiness. This troubling mix of media images shifts between amazement and kittens.
Pause invites us to revisit image typologies that have stood the test of time, whether still lifes, combat scenes, or movements of popular solidarity – among others – to approach the present differently. Their origin has sometimes slipped into oblivion, sometimes out of survival necessity, other times due to displacement, embarrassment, or disdain. Some motifs re-emerge in the exhibition like ghosts haunting the present, punctuating our visual wanderings, charged with a meaning no longer fully apparent but shaping our visual environment nonetheless.
Some of the works rely on images from the media flow, slipped into daily life and sometimes hard to receive, or only reflecting part of the facts. The artists take hold of them to rearticulate and propose a new interpretation, carrying both critical meaning, the need to reclaim one's past, and hope. They are juxtaposed with other works related to image typologies seemingly more comforting but equally shaped over time. With this exhibition, 49 Nord 6 Est explores the possibilities offered by art to reimagine the course of history.
Where does it take place?
FRAC Lorraine
49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine
Rue des Trinitaires
Metz
France
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