Exhibition
The Marquise Went Out At Five O'Clock - Edel Assanti
Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann | Stuart Bailes | Jorge de la Garza | Noemie Goudal | Adam Thomas
In partnership with Edel Assanti, jotta's platform for contemporary art practice, jottaContemporary, curates The Marquis Went Out at Five O'clock.
All the Kings Horses, a novel by Michele Bernstein, embodies a synthesis of contextual interpretations that continue to be used as cultural critique. Originally intended as an ironic and libertine novel to communicate the Situationist International movement, the diverse manifestations of the text over time reveal its influential social and historical observations layered within the guise of fiction. A deliberate provocation within Bernstein’s text, “The Marquise Went Out at Five O’clock”, functions as an arbitrary quote; it says nothing while leading to multiple meanings, thus exposing the operational motives of the literary text. All The Kings Horses provides this exhibition with a curious point of departure in which socio-political history is deconstructed through forthright prose, fictional satire, and art historical account.
The Marquise Went Out at Five O’clock showcases contemporary artistic practices influenced by the medium of documentation, renegotiating significant contextual references with fabrication. These artistic practices question the authority of the archive, whilst constructing potential meaning through representation in both found and photographic image. The artworks offer a dialogue that explores recollective memory and interpretative allegory, providing the viewer with a space in which to investigate the subjective image through differing eyes.
