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I’m Not Here: An Exhibition Without Francis Alÿs

by Andrea Alessi
Stefan Brüggemann, Pak Sheung Chuen, Vaast Colson, LUISA CUNHA, Grier Edmundson, Noa Giniger, André Guedes, Tatiana Mesa, Gustav Metzger, Roman Ondak, Wilfredo Prieto, Ariel Schlesinger, David Sherry, Mounira Al Solh at de Appel Arts Centre April 17th, 2010 - June 6th, 2010
Posted 4/26/10

The problem with making an exhibition about what’s not there is that you run the risk of showing nothing at all. Absence is a difficult thing to see, its visibility relying on reference points and shared assumptions. Without the right cues there is a serious risk that viewers won’t notice what they’re meant (not) to see. In “I’m Not Here: An Exhibition Without Francis Alÿs,” a solo-cum-group show at De Appel Jongensschool, curators take this risk, organizing a retrospective of sor... [more]