• EVA RÄDER
  TREACHEROUS PATH
• 01 SEPTEMBER - 18 SEPTEMBER 
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Nature Morte Berlin is pleased to present Treacherous Path, an exhibition featuring a site-specific project by Julia Staszak, and installations by Raqs Media Collective and Radhika Khimji.

Taking its name from Julia Staszak's work, the exhibition focuses on different artistic methods of collage, layering and appropriation.

The centerpoint of Julia Staszak's installation is a structure derived from the facades of Hindu temples in South India, which incorporates works by a diversity of artists such as: Anke Becker, Astrid Busch, Anne Gathmann, Mala Iqbal, Alexis Kersey, Isabelle Krieg, Stephen Mueller, Eva Räder, Raqs Media Collective, Sameer Reddy, Alexandra Schumacher, Dayanita Singh, Rini Tandon and Edward Weldon.

 Blurring the lines between conceptual art, painting, decor, collage and curating, trained painter Julia Staszak often integrates her own paintings, other artists' work and found objects into original and unfamiliar configurations. Her mischievous appropriations destabilize hierarchies in the art world and beyond; in this particular context, where a German artist has been commissioned for a project by an Indian art gallery, Staszak's penchant for toying with political correctness becomes particularly poignant because it complicates the cultural expectations involved in such an invitation.

Two recent works, which tread a similar path, will also be presented. The Raqs Media Collective, based in New Delhi, are Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabratta Sengupta. In the past few years they have become increasingly visible on Europe's cultural platforms, participating in museum and gallery exhibitions as well as academic forums and symposiums. In 2008, they co-curated the 7th Manifesta Exhibition, held in Bolzano, and curated the film and video component of the exhibition Indian Highway, held at London's Serpentine Gallery. From May 25th until July 4th, 2010, their video "The Capital of Accumulation" will be shown at Berlin's Hebbel Am Ufer theater as a part of the tri-city exhibition, "The Promised City".