In conjunction with the Ludwig Museum’s international exhibition Extended Present – Transient Realities, the concept of the exhibition will be presented in three external venues in parallel, embedded in the urban fabric of Budapest.
Jeannette Christensen’s installation for Budapest is not only site-specific but also “time-specific”, although the latter term is hardly used in contemporary art. Her work Every Day is a Miracle II uses a completely banal, everyday material, jelly to create objects that appear as minimalist sculptures, which take on a “life of their own” due to the atmospheric characteristics of the exhibition space – a cellar. The biochemical processes that take place in the gel cause the installation to appear differently at almost every moment to the viewers, who cannot see the work in its “entirety”, but only experience it in the time they spend at the exhibition. The installation, however, is the sum of all the moments that make up the process of decomposition and thus draw the viewer’s attention to the temporality of the reception of the work. As the work itself is in fact destroyed by the end of the process, and thus of the exhibition, temporality raises further questions not only about the reception but also about the survival and, eventually, the disappearance of the work.
Two other works by Jeannette Christensen are on display at the exhibition Extended Present.
VENUE: Vámház körút 11., 1095, Budapest
OPENING HOURS
03/09/2022 – 04/09/2022
On the occassion of the Bakáts Feszt: 2 - 8 pm.
07/09/2022–07/10/2022
Every Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday between 5 and 7 pm.
We reserve the right to change the closing date depending on the status of the installation.
UPDATE: the installation has been closed on 26 September due to the bad condition of the artwork.
The exhibition was supported by:
Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA)
GELITA
Exhibition partner
Municipiality of Ferencvaros, District 9
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Extended Present – TRANSIENT REALITIES 8. April, 2022 – 4. September
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