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Craig Havens. New Countermonuments

De erg

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Publiée 2016/05/25
30 mai - 1er juin 2016, galerie de l’erg
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Craig Havens. Waterloo Battlefield (Freshly-Turned Soil), 2015
Archival Pigment Print on Cold Press Rag Paper, 110cm x 140cm
 

Craig Havens. New Countermonuments   Opening : Monday 30th of May, 6pm
galerie de l'erg
Exhibition from Monday 30th of May to Wednesday 1st of June
Opening hours : from Noon to 4pm

Monuments are historically concerned with claiming a ground that cannot be challenged – seeking to maintain assumptions of singularity, centralization, legacy and perpetuity. Countermonumental strategies are those ways of working that embrace multiplicities, peripheries, temporality and impermanence.

The interplay between material forms and the immaterial presence of memory is a major concern in the work of Craig Havens - one which begs to be explored in terms of its ability to shape new forms of artistic expression and which describes the memorial effect of intentional ritual and even unintentional chaotic events.

 

The artist Craig Havens is Phd Candidate, Doctorate in Art and Sciences of Art, ED20
Joint Doctoral Program
Ecole supérieure des Arts - erg, Brussels 
UCL, Faculté de Philosophie, Arts et Lettres, Louvain-la-Neuve

Project Summary http://www.craighavens.com/PS.pdf