Fotomuseum Winterthur | Events | Friday, 24.02.2023, 18:00–21:00
Opening VALIE EXPORT and Adji Dieye
VALIE EXPORT, Portfolio of Doggedness (VALIE EXPORT, own words, conversation with Elisabeth Lebovici), 1968, b/w photography, courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac and the artist © VALIE EXPORT, 2022, ProLitteris, Zurich, photo: Joseph Tandl
from 18:00: exhibitions open and drinks
19:00: welcome by Fotostiftung Schweiz
19:30: welcome and introduction to the exhibitions by VALIE EXPORT and Walter Moser, curator of VALIE EXPORT – The Photographs, as well as Katrin Bauer, curator of Adji Dieye – Aphasia
20:00: poetry performance something about red-ankle’d migratory sing-sing birds by Rhoda Davids Abel
19:00: welcome by Fotostiftung Schweiz
19:30: welcome and introduction to the exhibitions by VALIE EXPORT and Walter Moser, curator of VALIE EXPORT – The Photographs, as well as Katrin Bauer, curator of Adji Dieye – Aphasia
20:00: poetry performance something about red-ankle’d migratory sing-sing birds by Rhoda Davids Abel
VALIE EXPORT
VALIE EXPORT – The Photographs is the first exhibition to focus on the photographic oeuvre of the artist VALIE EXPORT (b. 1940), whose at times provocative performances and experimental installations have been a source of controversy. The show examines EXPORT’s use of photography as a critical exploration of processes of depiction and representation. At the interface of film, video art, drawing and body art the photographs offer a new perspective on her creative oeuvre.
Adji Dieye
In her artistic practice, Italian-Senegalese artist Adji Dieye (b. 1991) deals with the subjects of postcolonialism and nation-building. The exhibition centres on the video installation Aphasia (2022), which presents a polyphonic language performance by the artist at various locations in Dakar, Senegal. Dieye’s work examines the role that language plays in historiography and the construction of a (national) identity. In doing so, she gives agency and a voice to Afro-diasporic and Senegalese communities by shedding light on the importance of oral storytelling as an alternative knowledge system.
Poetry performance something about red-ankle’d migratory sing-sing birds
Something about red-ankle’d migratory sing-sing birds (2023) has been newly produced especially for the exhibitions Adji Dieye – Aphasia and VALIE EXPORT – The Photographs by artistic researcher and storyteller Rhoda Davids Abel. By engaging with the metaphor of mythical birds that migrate but rarely return home and consequently remain in-between sky and soil, RDA’s poetry performance unearths topics of belonging, migration and transition using dreams as alternative archives to connect narratives of the past with the present.
Rhoda Davids Abel lives and works in Amsterdam, Bern and Cape Town. Her artistic practice focuses on the intersection of archival research and dream symbolism. She is currently studying at Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. In 2022, she won the Swiss Performance Art Award together with artists Latefa Wiersch and Dandara Modesto.
On the same evening, Fotostiftung Schweiz celebrates the opening of the exhibition Annelies Štrba – My Otherness Colourfully Unfolds.
Rhoda Davids Abel lives and works in Amsterdam, Bern and Cape Town. Her artistic practice focuses on the intersection of archival research and dream symbolism. She is currently studying at Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. In 2022, she won the Swiss Performance Art Award together with artists Latefa Wiersch and Dandara Modesto.
On the same evening, Fotostiftung Schweiz celebrates the opening of the exhibition Annelies Štrba – My Otherness Colourfully Unfolds.