Wissenschaftsbilder | Dokumentarisches Essay | Farbe, Stereo, | 12:22 | 2023
Wir zeigen, was wir (nicht) wissen – Bilder als Forschung | Klasse Expanded Cinema | Japanisches Palais, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
➻ SKD Provenience Research
➻ SKD about the Exhibition
➻ MDR Press
➻ Publication in ROSA MERCEDES Magazine - Harun Farocki Institut
What does research look like? What performative form can work take?
There is visible and invisible labour.
And labour that is not meant to be seen. The focus is on the visibility of work as a process. The exhibition as a visible form of interaction between the museum and the public comes into focus through a visual document of illustrated research away from public spaces. Research, archiving, installation and restoration – these are the invisible fields of work behind the visible surfaces.
Museums. The visual document is in the tradition of Antje Ehmann’s and Harun Farocki’s project ‘Labour in a Single Shot’ (2011-2014). Kunstlicht – To Throw Light Upon Labour (2023) bears witness to the working process in which the moving image takes on the kinetic narrative. The exhibited episode – The Autopsy of a Painting – deals with the provenance research of a painting by Jacobus Biltius (1633-1681), which was transferred to the SKD collection in the course of a Schlossbergung (castle salvage operation). A Schlossbergung refers to objects and artefacts from castles and manor houses that were expropriated after the Soviet land reform in 1945 and handed over to state institutions such as the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. This unlawful appropriation is investigated in provenance research projects and the Compensation Act for Restitution Claims enacted in 1994.
There is visible and invisible labour.
And labour that is not meant to be seen. The focus is on the visibility of work as a process. The exhibition as a visible form of interaction between the museum and the public comes into focus through a visual document of illustrated research away from public spaces. Research, archiving, installation and restoration – these are the invisible fields of work behind the visible surfaces.
Museums. The visual document is in the tradition of Antje Ehmann’s and Harun Farocki’s project ‘Labour in a Single Shot’ (2011-2014). Kunstlicht – To Throw Light Upon Labour (2023) bears witness to the working process in which the moving image takes on the kinetic narrative. The exhibited episode – The Autopsy of a Painting – deals with the provenance research of a painting by Jacobus Biltius (1633-1681), which was transferred to the SKD collection in the course of a Schlossbergung (castle salvage operation). A Schlossbergung refers to objects and artefacts from castles and manor houses that were expropriated after the Soviet land reform in 1945 and handed over to state institutions such as the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. This unlawful appropriation is investigated in provenance research projects and the Compensation Act for Restitution Claims enacted in 1994.
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