Urgent Conversations: Athens – Antwerp
The exhibitions Urgent Conversations: Athens–Antwerp and Urgent Conversations: Antwerp – Athens are a collaboration between EMST and M HKA, a theoretical and visual dialogue, based on works from the collections of both museums, which includes more than 70 works structured in 22 topics.
28.04.2017 - 07.01.2018
M HKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen - Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerpen
EMST, National Museum of Contemporary Art - Kallirrois Avenue & Amvr. Frantzi Str., Athens 11743
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Jimmie Durham
image: (c) Maria Thereza Alves
Do you Say I'm Lying?, 1995
This work was made for an exhibition at Galeria Modulo, in Lisbon, where Durham used for each object a quote from the book The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, by José Saramago. Read Durham's story about it here.
The text on the artwork was written - on Saramago's request - in Portuguese, and reads: "Acha que minto, Não, que idéia, nós não mentimos, quando é preciso limitamo-nos a usar as palavras que mentem." [Do you say I am lying? Certainly not, we have never lied to each other; when precision limits us, we use words to lie for us]
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