Christian Boltanski
05 Sep - 14 Dec 2008
CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI
"Les archives"
5 SEPTEMBER –14 DECEMBER 2008
... preserving oneself whole, keeping a trace of all the moments of our lives,
all the objects that have surrounded us, everything we've said and what's been said around us, that's my goal.
Christian Boltanski, from the catalogue.
From the press release: Magasin 3 has followed the career of the legendary French artist Christian Boltanski since the end of the 1980s. In his first solo exhibition in Stockholm six installations are presented by a specific choreography winding through the structure of Boltanski's blunt visual language. Tessa Praun, curator of the exhibition tells us that "Experiences of loss and the need to put a face to anonymous suffering, forms the thread that runs through much of Boltanski's body of work. Our individual and collective memories are central to works that often bear the traces of human life - clothes, photos, letters and other personal material."
Central to the exhibition is his new work, "Les archives du coeur", 2008, which will be created by visitors who contribute by donating the sound of their heartbeat. Starting in Stockholm he will collate an archive of recordings of heartbeats, which will be housed on its very own island belonging to the Benesse Art Site Naoshima in Japan.
"Les archives"
5 SEPTEMBER –14 DECEMBER 2008
... preserving oneself whole, keeping a trace of all the moments of our lives,
all the objects that have surrounded us, everything we've said and what's been said around us, that's my goal.
Christian Boltanski, from the catalogue.
From the press release: Magasin 3 has followed the career of the legendary French artist Christian Boltanski since the end of the 1980s. In his first solo exhibition in Stockholm six installations are presented by a specific choreography winding through the structure of Boltanski's blunt visual language. Tessa Praun, curator of the exhibition tells us that "Experiences of loss and the need to put a face to anonymous suffering, forms the thread that runs through much of Boltanski's body of work. Our individual and collective memories are central to works that often bear the traces of human life - clothes, photos, letters and other personal material."
Central to the exhibition is his new work, "Les archives du coeur", 2008, which will be created by visitors who contribute by donating the sound of their heartbeat. Starting in Stockholm he will collate an archive of recordings of heartbeats, which will be housed on its very own island belonging to the Benesse Art Site Naoshima in Japan.