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Metronom presents Dump!, a solo exhibition by Thomas Kuijpers (1985, Helmond, Netherlands), curated by Gabriele Tosi.
Thomas Kuijpers is known for collecting, manipulating, and presenting a vast amount of images and visual information. His projects, which hybridize installation with photography and video, create expansive, compressed, and layered scenarios where one can observe the specific emotional state of the image and the media.
With Dump!, the exhibition narrative strips away soft and immediate connections, in search of a detachment in visual perception. The installation is sparse and monumental, with an immediately noticeable and striking gap, purposefully seeking, more or less consciously, a reaction and engagement from the viewer in questioning images and symbols—even within the context of a contemporary art exhibition.
For the exhibition, a limited edition has been produced, which includes a transcription of the sound piece That’s Delirious (2019) and a conversation between the artist and the curator, recorded during the exhibition’s conceptualization. This conversation addresses the issues raised by each of the works and the underlying thread that gives coherence to the curatorial path.
Thomas Kuijpers (Netherlands, 1985, currently based in Ghent, Belgium) explores the roles of contemporary media storytelling within our perception of the current world, with a particular interest in the representation and communication of the concept of truth. He has presented his work at international institutions such as Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (2018); Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (2018); Foam Museum, Amsterdam (2017); Museum Arnhem, Arnhem (2016).
The exhibition is presented as part of FestivalFilosofia 2020.
Dump!
from 18th September to 31 October 2020
Metronom, Via carteria 10, 41121, Modena
