Dominique Hurth’s solo exhibition “Double Exposure(s)/ Stutters” is on view through May 8.

To celebrate the ending of the exhibition, we are pleased to welcome you for the finissage and conversations between Babak Afrassiabi, Ruth Noack and Dominique Hurth addressing taxonomies of collection-making, sites of storage and artistic strategies within post-archives.

The public event takes place on May 8, at 18:00 at Page Not Found

Babak Afrassiabi (b. 1969 in Tehran) is an artist. Since 2004, he has worked in collaboration with Nasrin Tabatabai to produce Pages, a bilingual (Farsi/English) magazine. This has now expanded into many projects and exhibitions, defined mostly by their combinations of different media and materials, often brought together as a result of long-term research. Linking these works is an attempt to articulate the undecidable space between art and its historical conditions.The recurring question, especially in more recent works, has related to the technological and material place of the archive in defining this juncture between politics, history, and the practice of art.

Ruth Noack (b. 1964, Germany) is an author, art critic, university lecturer and exhibition maker since the 1990s, trained as a visual artist and art historian. Noack was curator of documenta 12 (2007). Exhibitions include Scenes of a Theory (1995), Things We Don’t Understand (2000), The Government (2005) (with Roger M.Buergel), a solo show of Ines Doujak’s work (2012), and Notes on Crisis, Currency and Consumption (2015). Ruth Noack has contributed to “Stutters” publication by Dominique Hurth.

Dominique Hurth (b. 1985, France) is a visual artist and publisher working with sculpture and installation, and within the relationship between sculptural and printed matter. Her works develop by means of archival research, journalistic investigation, writing, and material experiments, and it is by way of editing that the installation operates in the exhibition space. The strategy of replicating follows a reading of images, where the outcome is often concentrated in the relationship between sculptural work and printed matter. Hurth frequently publishes in the format of artist editions and pamphlets. Her editions often emerge from within her installations yet are not per se illustrating the works nor documenting them. In recent years Hurth investigated the physical manifestation and the performativity of a book.

Image: installation view of “Double Exposure(s)/ Stutters” by Dominique Hurth. Courtesy of the artist and Page Not Found. Photo by Reinier de Wall.