GEORGES ADÉAGBO

The Colonization and the History of the Colonized

01.04.2009 - 13.09.2009

MAK Gallery

Georges Adéagbo (born 1942 in Benin) opens up a paradoxical field of fiction in his installations, which in the post-colonial – and in this sense, also always highly political – discourses, supports relevant fantasies about the Other(s). In doing so, the selection of his themes is just as ingenious as the direction with which the things he has selected are brought into a temporary order, that is also, at all times, capable of being revoked. In this direction, nets of meaning are constructed that are mutually contradictory and expectations are built up that the artist either breaks or redirects. Georges Adéagbo expands the gallery space, intervenes in the MAK Collection and examines it in terms of colonial implications.

Curator Andreas Krištof

The MAK gallery exhibition program presents positions of artists who focus on the theme of culture transfer.