Opening
For my exhibition in the Thomas K.Lang Gallery, I became interested in the mechanisms of exclusivity that are inherent in the production of art, and imagined artworks that function like riddles. Their apparently hermetic formal aspect was actually determined by a series of places inside and around the Webster University building, in which the fragments of a treasure map are hidden. Independently from their aesthetic taste, knowledge of art history or social position, visitors to the exhibition and students of Webster University are invited to decrypt the underlying codes within the sculptures, photographs and drawings that they see. By tracking one clue to the other, someone might find the hidden treasure…
(Adrien Tirtiaux)
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