Urgent Conversations: Athens – Antwerp

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    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

    Jimmie Durham

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    (c) Maria Thereza Alves
    Self-Portrait Pretending to Be a Stone Statue of Myself, 2006
    Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
    Photography , variable dimensions
    ink, paper

    Jimmie Durham made his first self-portrait in 1987 (read a story about it here), which was followed by a series of performative images that were produced since the artist moved to Europe. These photographs, taken by Maria Thereza Alves, show Durham playing the part of the artist whose personality unfolds into multiple identities, such as those of other artists, fictive characters or an stone.

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