I moved on until I went back

Five curators standing dressed in black in front of a strip of black-and-white landscape photographs; at the back, someone lying on the floor

31.10 — 09.11.2015 · Lichthof A and B, University of Applied Arts Vienna

Travellers (…) steal a snapshot of life and leave behind them a trace that could change the lives of those they've encountered.

Varial (aka Cédric Houin) and Fabrice Nadjari

According to Jean Louis Delotte, the inscription of an event becomes a matter of taking place, a trace of memory. In order to claim its existence, such event should be found in time and place. Hence memory develops a personal landscape that may be traced.

The exhibition I moved on until I went back brings together artists whose work explores landscape as an expanded idea. As a dynamic process shaped over time or as a personal experience, landscape records traces that later are evoked and imprinted in our mind.

The Lichthof A and B of the University of Applied Arts in Vienna will open the exhibition I moved on until I went back on October 30 at 8 pm, featuring works by young artists. This show is the final project of the residence program Curators' Agenda: Vienna 2015, organized by BLOCKFREI Association and including nine international curators.

Credits

Artists: Jana Rinchenbachova, Katrin Weidhofer, Maria Magdalena Ianchis, Mira Klug, Olena Newkryta, Philipp Kruder, Philipp Renda e Sebastian Gärtner
Curators: Aidan Li, Alexandra Nitschke, Bruna Grinsztejn João, Federica Brigo, Inês Jorge, Lorena Moreno Vera, Sophie Wallace, Ângela Susana and Teja Rot
Dates: 31.10.2015 — 09.11.2015
Venue: Lichthof A and B of the University of Applied Arts in Vienna – Austria

Installation views

Open books with orange and yellow drawings on a white table; in the background, a row of small dark photographs — Installation view of I moved on until I went back, Lichthof A and B of the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, 2015.

Four mountain-landscape photographs in pale frames: a valley, a woman seen from behind, a waterfall, someone lying on a rock — Installation view of I moved on until I went back, Lichthof A and B of the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, 2015.

Television screen showing a video of a person in a dark suit lying on a corridor floor beside a bowl and a tape measure — Installation view of I moved on until I went back, Lichthof A and B of the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, 2015.