In the Belly of the Whale [electronic resource].

Kunstinstituut Melly Witte de With 2016

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This group exhibition brings together artworks and objects to trace various transformations of meaning, reception, and use over time. The titular metaphor of the whale’s belly—a mythic space separated from lived reality—plays on the residual legacy of the white cube as an allegedly bracketed space of reflection, contemplation and perceptual or political transformation. Just as Jonah, who in the biblical account was swallowed by a whale, and perhaps the visitor, are transformed through isolated meditation, In the Belly of the Whale plays content against its framing to question both how an artifact references a given historical moment and how different modes and moments of display effect signification. Or, to present these questions in another way: do images and artifacts indicate fixed meanings independent of their context, or are they inherently unstable, and tempered by situational and institutional inscription?
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Natasha Hoare
Adam Kleinman
Advancing American Art (1946-47)
Minia Biabiany
Broomberg & Chanarin
Tania Bruguera
Mariana Castillo Deball
Jean-Martin Charcot
Paul Ekman
Hamza Halloubi
International Academy of Art Palestine (IAAP)
Emily Jacir
Käthe Kollwitz
Susanne Kriemann
Britta Marakatt-Labba
Pratchaya Phinthong
Jeremy Shaw
Amie Siegel
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Van Abbemuseum
Khaled Hourani
Defne Ayas
Patrick Goddard
Aaron Peck
Amie Peck
Ana Teixeira Pinto
Rosa de Graaf
Maria-Louiza Ouranou
Wendy van Slagmaat-Bos
Jeroen Lavèn