Madeleine
Madeleine’s memories are starting to falter. She moves along unfamiliar routes. Faces and places are blurred, the hour of the day has no meaning, and time itself makes leaps: in one minute Madeleine is 50 years old and in another, she is 84. Her reality shifts, at any moment she might find herself opposite her mother, sister or child. Madeleine loses her orientation – she leaves the world of language, cognition and knowledge. She feels rather than understands, though sometimes feelings remain enigmatic.
A certain sensation of security comes when she is at home. Here, her actions and movements function automatically. Songs of childhood are carefree moments washing over her. For Madeleine, the familiar can seem strange and the strange may be familiar.
'Madeleine' is part of insitu’s Cycle III, in which four group exhibitions are developed as if they were fictional characters. Each character is based on either a particular psychological profile, personality trait, or an existing character found in literature, film, or music.
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23 Jan – 05 March 2016
insitu Berlin
ARTISTS
Tully Arnot, Geta Brătescu, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Franziska Furter, Antonia Low, Reto Pulfer, Chulayarnnon Siriphol
CURATORS
insitu collective (Marie Graftieaux, Nora Mayr, Gilles Neiens, Lauren Reid)
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