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GENERAL CATALOGUE
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Dora Garcia Rooms and Conversations Editor: Julia Schäfer, Dora García, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig Title temporarily not availble, order recorded ENGLISH/GERMAN 104 Pages with 22 col. and 55 b/w Images Softcover Dimensions: 22,5 x 32 cm Euro 16.00 sFr 29.60 ISBN 978-3-939633-16-7 Date of publication: June 2007 |
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Is there such a thing as an “imaginary GDR”? How reliable are our recollections? What fixed patterns are followed by any fictionalisation of the past? The Spanish artist Dora García, resident in Brussels, asks herself these questions in her exhibition “Rooms, Conversations” in the Leipzig Gallery for Contemporary Art. The lavishly produced accompanying publication weaves its associative web with a dense collage of photographic stills,
archive material from the Ministry of State Security, sections of surveillance videos, and excerpts from novels or specialist literature. The artist’s works examine various themes such
as fear, dependence or real and imagined control, but the multi-referential combination of material enables us to feel the absurdity of total rule. When falsehood governs everything, a time comes when truth is no longer possible
– and so Dora García’s search for evidence reflects her own maxim: “It is not how it used to be. It is how I create my own memory of it”.
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