Opening Saturday July 29th 12.30 pm
The path of foreignness is traced by hospitality, and the latter by the need to make room for difference – in terms of language, origin, identity... – for the "other", the "newcomer".
We live in community. It is there where we identify ourselves as subjects, where we grow up and build our personal and collective universes. Living in society is in itself recognising the other and recognising ourselves; in short, establishing boundaries between us and others. Furthermore, thinking about the notion of limit entails its opposite: the un-limited.
Between black and white, light and shadow, the natural and the artificial, one’s own and the other’s, the native and the foreign, the divine and the human... and we could continue listing different qualities, aspects or conditions that create an "in-between".
But what is it that "in-between"? The notion of limit, which is presented in an attempt to organize the terms, institutes a certain binarism. Yet. it is also possible to think unlimitedly. So why not construct another dimension, beyond those created in the tension of opposites? Why not venture into those realms of nuances and emergencies, those where the edges blur to give birth to something new?
It is perhaps in the domain of the symbolic where reality acquires other forms to illuminate aspects that went unnoticed or were neutralised. This selection of works arises from the exchange with Etienne Bernard, director of FRAC Bretagne, as a "reaction" to the repertoire of works that make up the exhibitions at MUNTREF and those in the FRAC collection.
Diana B. Wechsler
Image: Renata Poljak, Porvenir