Rituals shape our social relations and are highly significant in all cultures. The publication illustrates that rituals are necessarily subject to change yet can also strengthen personal and societal resilience nowadays. Text in English, German and French.
Rituale prägen unser gesellschaftliches Miteinander und sind in jeder Kultur von großer Bedeutung. Sie konstituieren Gesellschaften und helfen dabei, Transformationsprozesse zu begleiten, indem sie Sicherheit vermitteln und Halt geben.Die Künstler:innen Baptiste Brossard, Helen Dowling und Sara-Lena Maierhofer untersuchen Rituale in ihren zeitgenössischen Spielarten und befragen deren Bedingungen und Möglichkeiten. Anhand von vorwiegend zeitbasierten Medien wie Fotografieund Video veranschaulichen sie den ephemeren und performativen Charakter von rituellen Handlungen.Die Publikation RITUAL, die im Rahmen der gleichnamigen Ausstellung in der Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen erscheint, vermittelteinen differenzierten Blick auf diese gesellschaftliche Urkraft. Es zeigt sich, dass Rituale durchaus veränderbar sind und auch inder Gegenwart zur persönlichen oder gesellschaftlichen Resilienz beitragen können.
Frey, MadeleineMadeleine Frey (b. 1984) studied art history and economics at the Universities of Freiburg (DE), Lugano (CH), Basel (CH), and Cambridge (UK). Her research interests include the economic and sociological parameters of the art industry, transformation processes, and the questioning of existing repressive structures and archetypes that result from the social power structure. In the exhibitions she curates, she pursues intermedia, processual, andperformative approaches.
Klappentext
Rituals shape our social relations and are highly significant in all cultures. They constitute communities and help accompany processes of transformation by conveying security and support. The artists Baptiste Brossard, Helen Dowling, and Sara-Lena
Maierhofer explore rituals in their various contemporary forms and question their conditions and possibilities. Based on predominantly time-based media such as photography and video, their works exemplify the ephemeral and performative
character of ritual acts.
The publication RITUAL, published as part of the exhibition of the same name at Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, imparts a critical
perspective on this elementary social force. It illustrates that rituals are necessarily subject to change yet can also strengthen
personal and societal resilience in the present day.
