Risquons-tout : contemporary artists venture into risk, unpredictability and transgression
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Risquons-tout : contemporary artists venture into risk, unpredictability and transgression
WIELS : Mercatorfonds , Yale University Press [distributor], c2020
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Exhibition catalogue
Catalogue of the exhibition held at WIELS, Brussels, September 12, 2020-January 10, 2021
Includes bibliographical references
Biographies: p. 261-264
Exhibited works: p. 268-269
'Risquons-Tout' is an ambitious, thematic group exhibition that explores the potential of transgression and unpredictability. It examines how art challenges the homogenisation of thought in the now infamous echo chambers of our overcrowded info-sphere. 'Risquons-Tout' presents some of the most innovative and influential artists and authors from the Eurocore region, which extends between Amsterdam, Paris, Cologne, Düsseldorf and London, with Brussels at its centre. The title is borrowed from a place located on the Belgian-French border, a real yet liminal space of transition, passage and informal exchanges, notably smuggling. The invited artists negotiate different dynamics of bridging, passing, translating and transgressing. In doing so they burst the safe bubbles generated by prediction algorithms, designed to avoid any risk, whether intellectual, financial, emotional or physical. The exhibition's geographic and political scope addresses today's global connectivity, trans-national circulation and diasporic
