Exhibition: Don't You Know Who I Am? – Art After Identity Politics
M HKA, Antwerpen
13 June 2014 - 12 October 2014
©image: M HKA
Don’t You Know Who I Am? – Art after identity politics brought together emerging talent from around the world. In recent decades, various social groups have defined themselves according to political, economic or social categories, such as race, ethnicity, gender or sexuality to increase their visibility and counter marginalisation.
The exhibition, presented on two floors in the museum and on several off-site locations, was designed as a large-scale study of the modes and means by which identity and identification can be considered. New generations of artists investigated the formation of identity/identities in the world by means of strategies, such as performativity, abstraction, reification, logic and aesthetics of anything digital, activism, the analysis of the self from cultural and scientific perspectives, or the study of the role of the spectator.
Some thirty artists were invited to show both existing works and newly produced works: Anthea Hamilton, Augustas Serapinas, Donna Kukama, Eloise Hawser, Ermias Kifleyesus, Guan Xiao, Haegue Yang, Hedwig Houben, Iman Issa, Imran Qureshi, Juha Laakkonen, Katja Novitskova, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Liesbeth Doms, Maria Safronova, Maria Taniguchi, Massimo Grimaldi, Nadezhda Grishina, Nastio Mosquito, Oleg Ustinov, Onkar Kular & Noam Toran, Oscar Murillo, Patrizio Di Massimo, Pedro Barateiro, Pennacchio Argentato, Shilpa Gupta and Wu Tsang
Media
>Exhibition view with Shilpa Gupta, 'Singing Cloud', 2008 - 2009 ©image: M HKA, 2014
>Exhibition view with Augustas Serapinas, 'Georges', 2014 ©image: M HKA, 2014
>Exhibition view with Eloise Hawser 'Velopex' and '100keV', 2014 ©image: M HKA, 2014
>Exhibition view with Haegue Yang 'Blind Curtain - Flesh Behind Tricolore', 2013 and the installation by Katja Novitskova 'Growth Potentials (Stand Alone) 1 - 5', 2014 ©image: M HKA, 2014
>Exhibition view with Imran Qureshi 'And They Still Seek The Traces Of Blood', 2013 ©image: M HKA, 2014
>Exhibition view with Augustas Serapinas, 'Georges', 2014 and Shilpa Gupta, 'Singing Cloud', 2008 - 2009 ©image: M HKA, 2014
>Exhibition view with Oscar Murillo, 'A Bastard Class', 2014 ©image: M HKA, 2014
>Exhibition view with Haegue Yang, 'Vip's Union', 2001-2004 and Ermias Kifleyesus 'There is No Zebra Crossing in Berlin', 2014 ©image: M HKA, 2014
>Exhibition view with Anthea Hamilton, 'Leg Chairs', 2009-2014 ©image: M HKA, 2014
>Exhibition view with Iman Issa, 'Material', 2009-2012 ©image: M HKA, 2014
>Exhibition view with Guan Xiao, 'The Documentary: Geocentric Puncture', 2012 and Ermias Kifleyesus 'Endless Cities', 2009-2014 ©image: M HKA, 2014
>Exhibition view with Juha Pekka Matias Laakkonen, 'Estrapada, 2014 and Maria Safronova 'Daily Shedule', 2012 - 2013 ©image: M HKA, 2014
>Exhibition view with Nadezhda Grishina, 'Point, 2014 ©image: M HKA, 2014
>Exhibition view with Anthea Hamilton, 'Cut-Outs', 2007-2014 ©image: M HKA, 2014
>Exhibition view with Onkar Kular & Noam Toran, 'I Cling to Virtue, 2010 ©image: M HKA, 2014
>Exhibition view with Pedro Barateiro, 'Curfew, 2013-2014 and Maria Safronova, 'The Game of General View', 2013-2014 ©image: M HKA, 2014
>Exhibition view with Liesbeth Doms, 'Artist's Aura, 2013 and Massimo Grimaldi, 'Emergency's Paediatric Centre in Nyala, Photos Shown On Two Apple iMac Quad-Core i5s', 2011 ©image: M HKA, 2014
WorksShow artists
> SHILPA GUPTA, Singing Cloud, 2008-2009. Installation, object built with thousands of microphones with 48 multi-channel audio, 152.4 x 457.2 x 61 cm, audio: 00:09:30.
> SHILPA GUPTA, Someone Else – A Library of 100 Books Written Anonymously or Under Pseudonyms, 2011. Installation, stainless steel, 100 etched books, 488 x 22 x 190 cm.