You can say: it’s about objectification, fetishization, isolation and reification; it’s about fundraising, budget control and its explosion; it’s about symbolic values and logistic costs; it tries to make sense of a constellation; it’s about hanging, labeling and having a walk in a defined space; it’s about scenic and decorative practices; it deals with relationships between artists (alive or dead), curators, organizers, artworks and audience; it’s about you looking at an item with the desire to touch it but you can’t, or mustn’t; it’s about dealing with ignorance, interpretation, historicizing and constant actualization. It’s about the ephemeral, and fixing, mounting and documenting, a fast and slow reception; it’s about discursive assemblage and material based meaning; it’s about being there before it disappears again.
Background picture: Chapelle palimpseste in Cosmotopia, with Omar Ba, Josse Bailly, Crystel Ceresa, Hadrien Dussoix, Thierry Feuz, Tami Ichino, Emma Perrochon, Frédéric Sanchez, Aymeric Tarrade et Eric Winarto. Eternal Tour Geneva 2012, Le Commun, Bâtiment d'art contemporain, Geneva. Photo: Vlado Alonso.