April 27 - Juin 19, 2010
Opening: April 24, 2010

ANDREA GEYER - SPIRAL LANDS CHAPTER 1/ CHAPTER 2 / CHAPTER 3 WITH SIMON J. ORTIZ
Spiral Lands writes an extensive photographic and textual historiography in three chapters, drawing out the implications of land and identity in personal experience, traditions, history and ideology to examine critically how these implications frame and determine our (mis)understanding of identity and the contemporary U.S.A. today. Andrea Geyer (1971) looks critically at records, documents, stories, drawings, and photography that construct the complex history of North America and the identity of its people.

ANGEL VERGARA - MONDAY: FIREWORK; TUESDAY: ILLUMINATIONS; WEDNESDAY: REVOLUTION
In the work of Angel Vergara, the object is often traded in for political actuality, economic reality and social events. In the exhibition Monday: Firework; Tuesday: Illuminations; Wednesday: Revolution the artist called it 'an anti-painting of history'. He concentrates on history, and more especially on the early days of the Belgian monarchy and its cultural, social-political and economic context. Vergara makes use of this historical 'reality' for a reflection in which historical facts intersect with fictional elements and personal thoughts.

ALEXANDER KLUGE - POETICS IN BETWEEN MEDIA
The German film director, philosopher and writer Alexander Kluge (1932) has made dozens of films, produced a great many television programmes and received the Büchner-Preis for his literary work. He is one of the most innovative and intellectual heavyweights of contemporary German cinema, and his work builds on the 'history' of the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries, with a particular focus on his own country. His inter-media works interweave a wide range of eclectic references - from opera through cinema to strip cartoons and extractsfrom advertisements. While tacking between fact and fiction, analysis and pastiche, Kluge constantly raises critical but never unambiguous questions about the topics he examines.

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Image: Angel Vergara, Monday: Firework; Tuesday: Illuminations; Wednesday: Revolution, 2010. Photography LB. Courtesy of the Artist.