"What do you think?" This question seems simple, even casual, and we've all heard it and probably asked it before. It interrupts our thinking before we have formulated our intention and found the right words. And although the question signals openness, an implicit assumption resonates: that every thought should be legible, divisible and, above all, purposeful. This demand reflects a general trend of our time: the growing urge for self-revelation.
The exhibition What Are You Thinking takes up Susan Sontag's seminal essay Against Interpretation (1964), which questions the need to impose meaning on works of art - to turn materials into metaphors and gestures into arguments. Sontag argued that the act of interpretation, if overemphasized, robs art of its immediacy and sensual impact. Instead, she urges us to regain our senses and encounter works of art as they are: complex and ambiguous.
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Claudia Famulok
ALTE BRUECKE 2 / MAININSEL, KUNSTHALLE PORTIKUS
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Tourismus+Congress GmbH Frankfurt am Main
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