Home

Passages. Travels in Hyperspace
October 6, 2010-February 21, 2011 | LABoral, Gijón / Spain

Sergio Prego

Doug Aitken – No History, 2005
Installation view: Passages. Travels in Hyperspace. LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón / Spain 2011
Photo: Reto Guntli

Sergio Prego

Pipilotti Rist

Paul Pfeiffer

Passages. Travels in Hyperspace is an exhibition drawn from the collection of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary that is conceived as a stroll, an excursion through an interior landscape of sorts. Rather than projecting a linear course through the space, this wandering fosters a contemplative state of consciousness and enriches the experience of each work as well as of the exhibition as a whole.

Coined by the American cultural critic Fredric Jameson, the term hyperspace describes a new spatial typology, producing perceptual and sensory shifts that affect the eyes and body. Public space, for instance, is usually arranged according to specific rules so as to enable a sense of orientation informed by convention. Changing those rules by reorganizing the space prompts a need to readjust and in turn fosters a heightened state of awareness, a feeling of being out of space, disoriented, and possibly open to experiences that alter our understanding or perception. We hope that visitors will allow themselves to enter the destabilizing spatiotemporal dimensions of contemporary art, to access its transformative qualities.

For the first time, Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial presents an exhibition without any display elements other than the architecture of the space itself. The resulting open plan is meant to reinforce the nonlinearity of the show and to enhance the dialogue between the works on view, as well as with the space they occupy.

Each of the works presented in the exhibition was chosen for its capacity to provoke reflection on the way we relate to the world that surrounds us. These works prompt us to question our sense of reality, our spontaneous reflex to rely essentially upon the observation of the world to comprehend it, without taking into account numerous parameters that may altogether challenge that notion. Both individually and as a whole, those artworks suggest a new grid for understanding and relating to our environment; they take us into a narrative dimension that freely associates reality and fiction. Walking out of the exhibition, back into “reality,” visitors may experience new sensations, wherein the familiar may look peculiar and therefore trigger a richer perception of our daily environment.

duration

October 6, 2010 - February 21, 2011

location

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial
Gijón / Spain

supported by

Wiener Städtische Versicherungsverein

artists

Ai WeiWei, Doug Aitken, Haluk Akakçe, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Maurizio Cattelan, Olafur Eliasson, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Florian Hecker, Jeppe Hein, Carsten Höller, Los Carpinteros, Ernesto Neto, Carsten Nicolai, Olaf Nicolai, Paul Pfeiffer, Sergio Prego, Pipilotti Rist, Monika Sosnowska, Cerith Wyn Evans

publication

Passages. Travels in Hyperspace
Works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection

Edited by Ana Botella Diez del Corral and Alexandra Hennig
LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijon – Asturias
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln

With contributions by Peio Aguirre, Vincente Álvarez Areces, Rosina Gómez-Baeza, Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, Alanna Heiss, Pau Waelder, Benjamin Weil and Daniela Zyman

Artists: Ai Weiwei, Doug Aitken, Haluk Akakçe, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Maurizio Cattelan, Olafur Eliasson, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Florian Hecker, Jeppe Hein, Carsten Höller, Los Carpinteros, Ernesto Neto, Carsten Nicolai, Olaf Nicolai, Paul Pfeiffer, Sergio Prego, Pipilotti Rist, Monika Sosnowska, Cerith Wyn Evans

192 pages, English / Spanish
Graphic design: The Studio of Fernando Gutiérrez
€35.00

Order »