This Is Your Replacement
Group show curated by Adam Carr

Apr 8th – May 13th, 2016
Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf

Copyright T293, Naples/Rome
Copyright BolteLang, Zurich; Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna; Capitain Petzel, Berlin; Metro Pictures, New York; Photo Achim Kukulies, Düsseldorf
Copyright Mladen Bizumic; Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Copyright Tanya Leighton, Berlin; Private Collection, Paris; Limoncello, London; Photo Achim Kukulies, Düsseldorf
Copyright Private Collection, Paris; Tanya Leighton, Berlin; Limoncello, London; Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf; Photo Achim Kukulies, Düsseldorf
Copyright Tanya Leighton, Berlin; Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf; Limoncello, London; Photo Achim Kukulies, Düsseldorf
Copyright Tris Vonna-Michell; T293, Naples/Rome; Photo Sebastiano Pellion di Persano
Copyright Lisson Galllery, London/Milan/New York; T293, Naples/Rome; Ellis King, Dublin; Photo Achim Kukulies, Düsseldorf
Copyright Lydia Ourahmane; Ellis King, Dublin

With: Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin (*1970 Johannesburg (ZAF) / *1971 London (GB)), Mladen Bizumic (*1979 Sremska Mitrovica (YU)), Alejandro Cesarco (*1975 Montevideo (UY)), Simon Dybbroe Møller (*1979 Aarhus (DK)), Sean Edwards (*1980 Cardiff (GB)), Claire Fontaine (founded 2004 in Paris (FR)), FORT (founded 2008 in Berlin (DE)), Ryan Gander (*1976 Chester (GB)), Isa Genzken (*1948 Bad Oldesloe (DE)), Diango Hernández (*1970 Sancti Spíritus (CU)), Talisa Lallai (*1989 Frankfurt a.M. (DE)), Louise Lawler (*1947 Bronxville, NY (US)), Kris Martin (*1972 Kortrijk (BE)), Jonathan Monk (*1969 Leicester (GB)), Joe Fletcher Orr (*1991 Birkenhead (UK)), Lydia Ourahmane (*1992 Saïda (DZ)), Yuri Pattison (*1986 Dublin (IE)), Sung Tieu (*1987 Hai Duong (VN)), Tris Vonna-Michell (*1982, Essex (GB)) and Bedwyr Williams (*1974 St. Asaph (UK))

Curated by Adam Carr

Technology and its developments have undoubtedly led to changes in our world, and arguably the world has advanced as a result of it. Some have debated, however, that society has regressed in technology’s wake, and its substituting effect can be, at times, questionable.No matter the outcome, change has been inevitable, and while technology is currently being refreshed and replaced at a relentless and almost unstoppable pace – always on the brink of extinction or defunct and surplus to our needs – our replacement seems to be ever near of being realised.

The exhibition This Is Your Replacement examines on the one hand what might be referred to as arcane or archaic technologies, presenting, through the work of artists, the afterlife that yesteryear’s technology has found in the visual arts. On the other hand, the exhibition looks at recent or current innovations in technology with artworks that both deploy and exploit them. While the electronics and devices vary – from 16mm projectors, slide projectors, broadcast standard monitors and analogue radios to servers, LCD screens and digital devices – they are united in the context of the exhibition which comes to discuss issues of display and presentation, as well as ideas of conservation and preservation.

Among the works by artists will be a display of the user manuals of the devices that each artwork adopts or depicts, taking stock of the electronic industry’s outpouring and showing the lineage of the technology on display.

Artists

  • Mladen Bizumic
  • Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin
  • Alejandro Cesarco
  • Simon Dybbroe Møller
  • Sean Edwards
  • Claire Fontaine
  • FORT
  • Ryan Gander
  • Isa Genzken
  • Diango Hernández
  • Talisa Lallai
  • Louise Lawler
  • Kris Martin
  • Jonathan Monk
  • Joe Orr
  • Lydia Ourahmane
  • Yuri Pattison
  • Sung Tieu
  • Tris Vonna-Michell
  • Bedwyr Williams

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