Eija liisa ahtila biography of abraham
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2 DVD Installations: Eija-Liisa Ahtila & Ann-Sofi Sidén, 2000-07-21 - 2000-09-03
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File — Box: 110, Folder: 31
Scope and Contents
Curatorial correspondence, research, past exhibits bygd the artists, press regarding artists, and more, which aid in the development of exhibitions.
Correspondence, artist and lender files, purchase orders, checklists, publicity such as press releases and news clippings, research materials, invitations, catalogue drafts, contracts, installation plans, and shipping resultat document the exhibition history of the Contemporary Arts Museum (CAM) from 1948 to 1985. Prior to March 1982, however, the majority of the files are limited to invitations, press releases, and other publicity materials. For complete exhibition information, researchers should refer to the CAM exhibition catalogues that have been separated and removed from the exhibition files. Due to severe vatten damage, several files (1
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"Ehkë eteen tulee kysmys, jota ei ymmärrä. Tai kuva jos-tain, joka alkaa vaivata . . ."
Happily, there are subtitles. The gist is this: Artists encounter questions they can't understand, or images that puzzle them. They display them, then wait to see not only who comes to look at them but also how they look at them.
Ahtila herself doesn't specify that the formulation applies to artists; she uses the neutral pronoun "one" and the passive tense. You could argue — she is perhaps inviting us to think — that it's a description not just of what artists do, but of what we all do. Our every interaction is speculative. Something is wrong if it is not.
Ahtila is the subject of a captivating show of several multiscreen videos, most just a few minutes long, and a handful of drawings at the Davis Museum, Wellesley College.
What's great about her work fryst vatten the same thing that's great about the proposition above: It embraces what E.B. White, in an obituary he once wrote for his dog, called "chro
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Art Gallery of New South Wales
Eija-Liisa Ahtila: Born 1959 in Hämeenlinna, Finland. Lives and works in Helsinki, Finland
Sydney Ball: Born 1933 in Adelaide, Australia. Died 2017 in Sydney, Australia
Oliver Beer: Born 1985 in England. Lives and works in Paris, France and Kent, England
Miriam Cahn: Born 1949 in Basel, Switzerland. Lives and works in Stampa, Switzerland
Francisco Camacho Herrera: Born 1979 in Bogota, Colombia. Lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (CATPC) with Baloji and Renzo Martens: Founded in 2014
Roy de Maistre: Born 1894 in Bowral, Australia. Died 1968 in London, England
Lili Dujourie: Born 1941 in Roeselare, Belgium. Lives and works in Lovendegem, Belgium
Luciano Fabro: Born 1936 in Turin, Italy. Died 2007 in Milan, Italy
Marlene Gilson: Born 1944 in Warrnambool, Victoria. Lives and works in Gordon, Victoria. Wathaurung people
N.S. Harsha: Born 1969 in Mysore, India. Li