Lamenting Images : ‘New Ghost Stories’ at Palais de Tokyo
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J’ai lu une critique de ce travail ici mitigé mais je ne le retrouve pas
“Museum and mausoleum are connected by more than phonetic association,” the theorist and critic Theodor Adorno wrote in 1953. At the Palais de Tokyo, the sepulchral New Ghost Stories (Nouvelles Histoires de Fantômes) revisits this relationship by addressing “the exhibition in the age of its mechanical reproduction.” This austere congress of images, which includes a great deal of moving film, is cacaphonous and intense, ordered but not orderly, fully achieving what co-organizer Georges Didi-Huberman calls “a great kaleidoscope of the motions of the soul.”
Created by the art historian-cum-theorist Didi-Huberman and the photographer Arno Gisinger, the installation restages, or presents what is called an “evolution” of, a 2012 show by the duo at Le Fresnoy in Paris. Both installations center around the lamentation-themed Plate 42 of pioneering art historian Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas (1929) and include a “visual essay” by Gisinger comprising 40 pictures he took of an earlier Warburgian exhibition, Atlas: How to Carry the World on One’s Back (2010–11).
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