Badischer Kunstverein presents Tanja Widmann one of you (eine von euch), a new, space-encompassing installation by the Vienna-based artist on view 6 July–9 September 2012.
Establishing the point of departure for the new installation eine von euch is a report on a psychoanalytical session held by Félix Guattari with his patient R.A. and the composition of their interaction. This has led Widmann to investigate acts of speaking that suggest a specific (power) relation between “speaking/knowing” subjects and “unknowing” ones, as can be discerned in the psychoanalyst’s speech—but also in remarks made by the British animal scientist David Attenborough about his research subjects, or by the scientists in Frederick Wiseman’s film Primate (1974).
In the exhibition, Widmann arranges various media and materials in an open form of installation, which now allows heterogeneous elements to uniquely encounter one another, such as psychoanalysis, primate research, early speeches given by Margaret Thatcher, contemporary art blogs, but also a Versace collection for H&M, and embroidery patterned in speculative constellations.
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