Passages

Passage = the act of walking or passing through; sea or air travel; a rapid series of notes in a musical composition; a consecutive portion of a speech or piece of writing; […]

OPENING Thursday, 2012 November 8th, 7:00 p.m.

MAG3
SCHIFFAMTSGASSE 17
1020 WIEN
(Accessible by U2 Taborstrasse or U4 Schottenring/ exit U2 Herminengasse)

Exhibition with works by
ROMANA HAGYO | SILKE MAIER-GAMAUF | FRITZ FRO | MARIA HUBINGER | GUE SCHMIDT

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS: PETER ZAWREL

Romana Hagyo , Schwellenzauber

Maria Hubinger, HaMW

Fritz Fro, Feuertanz

Gue Schmidt, Reigen

Silke Maier-Gamauf, Nomad

In the medium of contemporary as well as older photography, processes have reached a pace that strongly resemble language in general — that is fundamentally an inherent quality of any medium. It is certainly due also to the fact that media appear as articulations of interaction between people (the Latin medium means middle); we use them to relate to each other, to exchange ideas, to engage in social intercourse.
Considered in this perspective, any modern medium as such embodies the expression of social productivity as well as its capacitive volume — in our political and social conception, however, it seems to have tended in the direction of a perpetual continuation of speech as a purpose in itself, which may also be perceived as an incessant inability to reach a conclusion: visualization is taken as self-evident end, and the reflection on what has been perceived is deflected toward a renunciation of actual understanding — and thus turns into a static aspect — instead of what would perhaps be its essential service: to bring out the important moments in existence in their transformations.

The exhibition project PASSAGEN takes on this heterogeneity: five people who work in very different ways and represent a wide variety of approaches to photography not only visualize the social moment that takes place in production in general, but also examine the latter, in the works on display, as the result of a social process.

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DURATION: 09.11. – 22.11.2012
OPENING HOURS: Thursday – Friday 4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.