Thomas Hirschhorn
Les Plaintifs, les Bêtes, les Politiques
Exhibition from November 30 to January 27, 1996
Opening November 29, 1995
One of the rooms will be occupied by a huge “stand” (Les Plaintifs, les Bêtes, les Politiques). […] The other rooms will be crossed by a cardboard box wall where Thomas Hirschhorn will intervene by collages of photographs, newspaper clippings and pages from his previous catalogs. The comments he will add will enable him to act again and document his exhibitions again. This kind of presentation gives the opportunity not only to re-expose his work but to subject it to self-criticism, justifying itself again and again, breaking the classification of genres – exhibitions, videos, catalogs, texts, editions – to defer the closure of his work. The works are reused and re-discussed, like the cardboard box constituent material, revealing an artistic practice that also announces itself on the mode of recovery and recycling. (Véronique Bacchetta, extract from the press release)
