Overcoming

An exhibition at Ernst Museum in Budapest with Manon de Boer - Jesper Just - Pia Rönicke & Zeynel Abidin Kızılyaprak - Hito Steyerl

Often in moments of historical crisis, moments where individuals or groups of people are ripped of there basic rights or moments where one system collapses and gives way for another in a rather uncontrollable process, the personal and social or societal experience appear to merge or overlap.
The exhibition Overcoming compiles four works from U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art in Copenhagen, which in different ways use the film medium to get close to a traumatic event, and through aesthetic means mixing the documentary and the staged footage manage to penetrate that moment of loss and trauma. The events referred to are located in different places as Brazil, Turkey, Romania and Bosnia, but what they have in common is an experience that is only about to find a language in which to express it self, a language that on the one hand can remember and hold tightly and, on the other hand, can distance itself from the event in order to try to understand what happened.

The exhibition is organised as a collaboration between U-turn and Mucsarnok and was followed by a programme deviced by Mucsarnok. More...