Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously
16.01 – 1.03.2015
Syntax, Lizbona
Michał Budny, Goncalo Sena, Jiri Thyn
Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously questions conventional means of curatorship based on classification, categorisation, division and rationalisation — in other words a key, which has become characteristic for curatorial work and the “reading” of an exhibition.With the gradual shift of artistic practice towards the poetic and the so called mental landscape of the artist a deeper questioning of exhibition production, based on frequently reductive methods of classification is at hand.
The exhibition brings together the work of three artists for whose work a poetic, performative and spatial method of practice becomes characteristic. Exchanging a conventional curatorial language, for the poetic, intuitive and spatial, the exhibition aims to question conventional narrative structures, the construction of meaning within the medium of an exhibition and the role of the spectator within such a space of an imaginary play.