Since the late 1980s, Ben Kinmont has been interested in interpersonal communication as a means of addressing the problems of contemporary society. His sculptures and actions attempt to establish a direct, personal relationship between the artist and the viewer, using the work as a mediator.
“Prospectus: Paris” at Kadist Art Foundation is a traveling survey show in which a selection of works from the past twenty-two years are exhibited and (re)activated. For each location, Ben Kinmont has worked together with a different curator to conceptually develop the premise of the show. The source material includes project descriptions and archives, past curated projects, publications from the Antinomian Press, and various photographs and sculptural objects.
At the Kadist Art Foundation, the exhibition concentrates on the notion of exchange and economy through the presentation of six projects from 1992 to the present. The works selected for the Kadist exhibition investigate different modes of economy developed through an artistic practice. In some cases Kinmont redistributes the art market value of a project to participants and in other cases he adopts other economies as an alternative mode of exchange with people. The works also consider how artists develop a sustainable economy as an art project and when they decide to stop their practice to become something else. With all of these strategies at stake, art becomes a visible part of the social fabric towards a «materialization of life.»
Images courtesy of Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
(source: www.moussemagazine.it)
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