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Tacita Dean (British, b. 1965)

Jan 8, 2009 - Jan 12, 2009
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Press Release for Passageworks: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection

 

German philosopher and literary critic Walter Benjamin fell in love with the Parisian shopping arcades of the 19th century, calling them “passageworks” for their uncertain status between private and public, interior and exterior, and production and consumption. The exhibition Passageworks is organized around this idea. With contemporary works that evoke a sense of passage or transition, the exhibition considers shifting notions of belonging and mobility, suggesting contemporary experience as fluid and dynamic rather than fixed or stable. Grouped according to themes such as navigation, dislocation, memory, and translation, all the works deal in movement—from past to present, fact to fiction, site to non-site, and back again. Highlights include recently acquired works—some on view for the first time—by Tacita Dean, Luc Tuymans, Pierre Huyghe, Emily Jacir, Julie Mehretu, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Thomas Eggerer.