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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. |