Rowan Smith & Dan Halter at Galerie Dominique Fiat (Paris)
Objects of a Revolution
International Group Exhibition
17 January - 28 February 2009
Rowan Smith and Dan Halter have been selected for the exhibition ‘Objects of a Revolution’ at Galerie Dominique Fiat in Paris from 17 January - 28 February, 2009.
Press Release
Objects of a Revolution
Dan Halter, Glenda Léon, Trokon Nagbe,
Jackie Nickerson, Nnenna Okore, Rowan Smith
Opening 17 January 6 - 9 pm
Exhibition 17 January - 28 February 2009
The world is changing. Geopolitical balances are shifting, economic and political power is being redistributed, new powers are emerging. Today a new world order is taking form bringing with it new social, political and cultural order.
Hindsight teaches us that this is a reoccurrence in the History of man kind. New eras bring with them new hegemonies issued from the struggle of civilizations. It has become apparent that Today is such a time, in this globalized world where delineations have become increasingly unperceivable the struggle between the east and the west, the north and the south or simply the developed and developing world is raging.
The rules of engagement may have changed the sword and the shield replaced by resources and technology but the purpose of the fight and the prize of victory are unaltered.
What will be prevailing models in the next decades depends much more so on this post modern warfare and the exogenous influences it bears on each of our individual societies than the power we have within our societies to shape our on destiny. Identity, consumption, beliefs and all the very basic and essential fibers of our construct are today all contingent on alien forces.
Nations and communities have reciprocally penetrated each other’s spheres and altered autonomous evolution paths. This mutual infiltration has transformed our world and globalization in its most ample definition, aided by technology, has been a catalyst for the vertiginous acceleration of this process. From a Eurocentric perspective what has seemed to most in contemporary times a peaceful process of “metissage” is revealing insidious and hostile facets more akin to its genesis rooted in the deeds of Alexandre, Columbus or Livingstone.
How do we interpret this new cartography where communities from Africa, Asia and Latin America are transforming
and nations culled in those continents are shaping into super-powers? How do we extrapolate the landscape of tomorrow?
When their emotional intuition, intellectual integrity and critical sense are uncompromised, artists’ interpretation of the natural environment, of social codes and of the human condition, can produce work of great prophetic value. The Artists exhibiting in this show all have lucid understanding of our present and past and thus produce visionary intuitions of our future. The works they exhibit are their reflection on the revolution in the geopolitical status quo and their suggestion of things to be. The world is changing.
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