Taming the Horror Vacui [electronic resource].

Rib 2021

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This ninth and last issue of Taming the Horror Vacui publication presents images of the final state of Haseeb Ahmed’s installation at Rib in June 2021. One and half years in the making, bearing the traces of the hosted events and the invited guests, Ahmed’s artwork in the space of Rib feels today as if it had not yet exhausted its potential once photographed at last. Taming the Horror Vacui publication kept track of the changes in his installation. At one point, the central wind tunnel did not exist, and neither did the library of the winds as it is presented here. Looking at the first issues of the publication, the space at Rib indeed looks very different from what you see while browsing this issue. Slowly showing these changes through images and text in order to give a sense of a certain “progress” in the evolution of Ahmed’s exhibition at Rib was one of the main purposes of this publication. Issue by issue, it acted as a record of a growing project. However, as we expressed in many previous editorial notes, Taming the Horror Vacui publication was never supposed to be a mere documentation of a series of events or an art exhibition. Following the idea of Rib as an institution aiming to unravel an artist’s practice by embedding it in its context over a long period of time, and mirroring Ahmed’s aggregative approach as an artist whose work is deeply shaped by collaboration, this publication was never satisfied with simple reporting. Likewise, its generative attitude is present in this issue too, which comprises of two elements: documentary photos and original drawings by Ahmed…
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Design
Art--Exhibitions
Earth sciences
Sculpture

Text

Haseeb Ahmed
Piero Bisello
Sander van Wettum
Maziar Afrassiabi
Kristin Metho
Linus Bonduelle
Claudia Schouten