28.02.2025 – 24.08.2025
A scream, the scream of Marina Abramović – that is, of a human being – is the beginning of the exhibition Freeing the Voices. In the course of the exhibition, it develops into a multitude of other, mainly human voices and ends in the work of Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec with the voice of a mosquito. Why is an exhibition about the voice so important today? The world we live in is completely out of balance. The multitude of crises and wars, as well as the loss of the common space in which bodies resonate with each other, have created a sense of suffocation and panic. A culture of silence has spread around us, the space for free expression is shrinking and the call for a ‘cancel culture’ is growing louder. But this silence, this censorship, is not the only means of control. We are exposed to a noise of information that overwhelms us even more. A noise in which the sense that holds us together as a social body is silenced. In the face of all this, it is no longer enough to simply realize that we do not speak with our own voice, but that behind it there is always the voice of a ‘master’. It is time to act, even if it is only an inarticulate cry or murmur.
With works from Marina Abramović, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Noor Abed, Babi Badalov, Selma Banić, CO2 … a couple of artists, VALIE EXPORT, Farhad Farzali, Essa Grayeb, Ida Hiršenfelder, Saodat Ismailova, Anna Jermolaewa, Mikhail Karikis, Anton Kats, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Brandon LaBelle & Octavio Camargo, Katalin Ladik, Lucia Nimcová, Lala Raščič, Antoni Rayzhekov, Gerhard Rühm, Selma Selman, ŠKART & NONpractical Women, Mladen Stilinović, Irena Z. Tomažin, Nora Turato, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec.
Freeing the Voices
28.02.2025 – 24.08.2025
Kunsthaus Graz
www.museum-joanneum.at
