EXHIBITION

Identify your limitations, acknowledge your periphery

Basel-Stadt, Basel, 06/11/2017 - 08/20/2017

Vogesenplatz 10

ABOUT

Boundaries, encasement, and entrapment – how does the vitrine mediate the subject or the object? Available for viewing, yet significantly distanced from its spectator the vitrine is often questioned within museums and institutions. By acknowledging the vitrine’s confinements how might one adopt these elements to both activate an artwork and abolish boundaries?

Round Two of the group exhibition ‘Identify your limitations, acknowledge your periphery’ with site-specific works by 29 selected international artists that look at the notions of limitations, instruction-based practice, and the role of the vitrine within exhibition making that will naturally manifest forms of the wunderkammer.

‘Identify your limitations, acknowledge the periphery’ began as a conversation and exhibition by co-curators Alys Williams and Chris Bayley in London 2016 with the work of 17 artists that inhabited Vitrine’s unconventional gallery space in London; a 16-metre vitrine enclosed behind glass. Concerned with the format of the gallery model and the role of the vitrine, the curators continue this enquiry, inviting and instructing a new selection of artists to devise works specifically for Vitrine’s space in Basel.


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APT ARTISTS ON VIEW

Craig Mulholland

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