Badischer Kunstverein presents Emilie Pitoiset / Hanna Schwarz Hold Repeat Pause open 25 January–1 April 2013.
In its atrium, Badischer Kunstverein is showing the artists Émilie Pitoiset and Hanna Schwarz in a joint exhibition. Both artists set out from aspects of movement in dance, gestures, performances, and film narratives, but they do not foreground the movement itself but rather the moment between different body postures. They emphasize the in-between or gap as a place where meanings are generated.
Pitoiset and Schwarz present the body as a kind of storage place for social actions. The undefined and unstable quality thus points to a utopian moment. At the same time, their works also raise questions of historicizing dance and performances and translating dance and choreographies into other media such as film and photography.
Émilie Pitoiset (b. 1980, Noisy-le-Grand) lives and works in Paris.
Hanna Schwarz (b. 1975, Stuttgart) lives and works in London and Berlin.
Curated by Nadja Quante.
Badischer Kunstverein
Waldstraße 3
76133 Karlsruhe, Germany
www.badischer-kunstverein.de
