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until 02.11. | #4434ARTatBerlin | BQ shows from Saturday, 07. September 2024 (Vernissage: 06.09.) the exhibition A Ghost Returns by the artist Ruth Nemet.
On the occasion of Berlin Art Week, BQ presents the third solo exhibition by Ruth Nemet, born 1977 in Tel Aviv, lives and works in Los Angeles.
The exhibition “A Ghost returns” shows a new series of photographs in various formats that depict (and displace) sections of the apartment of a veteran peace activist near Tel Aviv. The apartment is crammed with books, magazines and souvenirs. The walls and doors are covered from floor to ceiling with political stickers, posters and paper clips, resulting in a mixed archive of slogans, objects and images. The title of the exhibition is written in German above an illustration of Karl Marx making the V-sign, which is embedded in one of the all-over collages and in some ways recalls the work of the décollagistes or the aesthetics of the billboards.
In the exhibition, Nemet establishes a correspondence between photography as a mechanism of spectral imagery and what can be seen as a ghostly way of life in the current political and cultural climate, incorporating obsolete means of communication such as printed matter, as well as ideologies and beliefs that seem to have disappeared from the public sphere, such as Marxism and, in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the perspective of peace and coexistence. All this reappears in the exhibition as a kind of mirage, as a material but doomed image of an obscure world.
Vernissage: Friday, 06. September 2024, 6-9 pm
Exhibition period: Saturday, 07. Setember 2024 – Saturday, 02. November 2024
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Image caption: “Sartawi”, 2024, Archival pigment print, mounted on chipboard, 110 x 79,26 cm, courtesy BQ, Berlin
Exhibition Ruth Nemet – BQ | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
