Passants Parmi Les Pierres,
Exhibition at FJK3 curated by artist Thomas Demand
The exhibition Passants parmi les pierres revolves around images that do not simply depict, but simultaneously produce the reality to which they refer: perception as construction, memory as montage, the image as a form of history.
The exhibition brings together 27 positions from photography, film, and sculpture. All of them move between reportage and reconstruction, between the observed moment and the staged image, between a historical event and its representation. Figures often appear in front of architecture, frequently turned away from the camera. They suggest a relationship to the surrounding spaces which, upon closer inspection, proves to be more a supposition than a confirmed connection.
Captions written by the author Clemens J. Setz form an independent textual layer within the space. They do not explain the exhibited works, but accompany them with openly subjective commentary—as association, memory, observation, or short narrative. In doing so, they invite viewers to develop their own interpretations rather than asserting an allegedly objective set of facts.
The exhibition is conceived as a spatial movement through the fjk3. Transitions, narrow passages, and sightlines create a mode of strolling in which seeing and thinking merge: passers-by among the stones.
With works by:
Tina Barney • Sibylle Bergemann • Martin Boyce • Mohamed Bourouissa • David Claerbout • Tacita Dean • Cai Dongdong • Haris Epaminonda • Omer Fast • Peter Fischli David Weiss • Jens Franke • Ljubiša Georgievski • Luigi Ghirri • Esther Hovers • Jürgen Jürges • Boris Mikhailov • Yoshinori Mizutani • Lucia Moholy • Daido Moriyama • Akihiko Okamura • Daniel Postaer • Denise Scott Brown • Clemens J. Setz • Thomas Struth • Unknown photographer • Anna Viebrock • Jeff Wall • Carrie Mae Weems
