OUT OF THE METROPOLIS - Art exchange across borders is a three-year project that aims to explore and support insight and innovation in the field of co-creation and circulation of visual art, and in particular contemporary photographic practices, across borders.
We are delighted to announce Curating & Repair, published in partnership with NŌUA (Bodø, Norway), Double Dummy (Arles, France) and the Finnish Museum of Photography (Helsinki, Finland).
Curating & Repair explores contemporary curatorial practices and exhibition-making as contexts for dialogue, exchange and the remaking of social and cultural relations through repair. It seeks actionable insights into how artistic work, its mediation and the institutions that support it might be mobilised toward more sustainable and interdependent worlds.
Taking flight from perspectives on translation, solidarity and power, Curating & Repair approaches mediation both as contested terrain and generative possibility. It discusses the importance of challenging normative power relations in artistic collaboration, alongside the difficulties of sustaining creative work against the undertow of multiplying global crises. By aligning the curatorial with the dialogical, it calls attention to the serious, collective work that we as artists, mediators and publics have at our hands.
