OPENING RECEPTION: DEC. 27th 2014, 4-7 pm
LOCATION: Meridian Space and Urbanus E6
ADDRESS: Behind 77 Theatre at C&C Park, 77 Meishuguan Houjie, Dongcheng district, Beijing
Gatherings of exiles and émigrés and refugees; gathering on the edge of ‘foreign’ cultures; gathering at the frontiers; gathering in the ghettos or cafes of city centers; gathering in the half-life, half-light of foreign tongues, or in the uncanny fluency of another’s language … of other worlds lived retroactively; gathering the past in a ritual of revival; gathering the present”Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture
“In-Between You and Me” is an attempt to understand the spatial temporality formed between individuals in a foreign land. The exhibition endeavors to comprehend various artistic visions from disparate locations around the world and present them in a liminal space. The space is a starting point that triggers the interactions and juxtaposes different narratives. The boundary between the viewer and the viewed gets diminished in this liminal space. The actions, sounds and gestures construct a dynamic aura within the space that leads to a potent question – Does the space between ‘Us’ and the ‘Other’ exist? Or is it merely a fictitious cavity that we imagine?
Featuring works by Christiane Huber, Enrique Lanz, Wolfgang Obermair and Jagrut Raval.
Installation view with PENDING, inkjet on rice paper and a collaborative work of a line of moving stolls,
2014, Photo: Ekaterina Shapiro-ObermairSPIT, performance with stoll, glass, wood, 2014,
in collaboration with Jagrut Rava, Photo: Ekaterina Shapiro-ObermairPENDING, inkjet on rice paper, 2014