re.riddle presents unique programming showcased in site-specific exhibitions and pop-up events worldwide. The itinerant gallery curates socially engaging and multidisciplinary exhibitions of contemporary art. Its mission is to contribute to the discourse on contemporary art in thought provoking and playfully subversive ways. Via new modes of production, reception and consumption, re.riddle places an emphasis on the whimsical, in hopes that art continues to arouse curiosity and promote an awareness of its profound impact on our daily surroundings and lives.
re.riddle presents Falling Up
Amidst riots and racial tensions, divisive political rhetoric and a global pandemic, the past half year has been a time of turbulent uncertainty. These acute ruptures and moments of pain, conflict and unknowingness have inadvertently led to a mode of seeing our former and current realities anew, which may more or less best be described as “surreal”.
Devoid of conventional demarcations of time and social interaction, the phenomenon of sheltering-in-place (with its flowing stream of timeless days and self-governed isolation) engendered a pronounced disengagement from established norms, social systems and relationship to the physical world for many. Suddenly or very gradually, people were forced to exist in moments of continuity and discontinuity with the world, oscillating between various temporal strains. This new orientation affects both, but not only, the physiological and intellectual. It prompts us to see – by way of its disillusion of the past – the artifice that underlines our social practices, rules and collective behaviors.
Sparked by the conditions of our current moment, Falling Up, aims to explore the notion of artifice, its nature and how it behaves. How might the idea of artifice offer a way for us to embrace the paradoxes or dialectic of multiple realities? Instead of defining artifice as merely inauthentic or “fake”, this exhibition considers the poeticism to its fiction and how it might go so far as to rescue today’s reality.
Credit: Versia Harris
Credit: re.riddle, Summer Mei Ling Lee
Credit: re.riddle, Patricia Reinhart
Credit: re.riddle, Michail Michailov
Credit: Lauren Lee McCarthy
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re.riddle gallery (US)
re.riddle
re.riddle presents unique programming showcased in site-specific exhibitions and pop-up events worldwide. The itinerant gallery curates socially engaging and multidisciplinary exhibitions of contemporary art. Its mission is to contribute to the discourse on contemporary art in thought provoking and playfully subversive ways. Via new modes of production, reception and consumption, re.riddle places an emphasis on the whimsical, in hopes that art continues to arouse curiosity and promote an awareness of its profound impact on our daily surroundings and lives.
This program is part of 2020 – finally digital?!
The year 2020 began with a Big Bang, one that demanded the art industry pivot away from its established codes of conduct, immediately, as a matter of sheer survival. From the exchange of courtesies, to remote work structures, and to the reorganization of public and private spaces – old customs required immediate redesign in response to the crisis. As a result, the online space gained even more significance as the only platform for business and commercial transactions, affecting even the art industry and its age-old reliance on in-person interaction. However, across the art industry’s network of galleries, artists, institutions, auction houses, and biennials, the speed of adaptation, the ability to process the ongoing iterations and to find a customized response has varied dramatically.
2020 – finally digital?! is composed of three sections: a conference, invited curatorial projects, and digital gallery showcases. The conference will feature notable members of the art industry and their assessments of the art world’s digitization progress over the past year. The second section invites curators to report back from their communities on emerging positions that are acute right now. The third section amplifies galleries, which are the backbone of the art industry.
Christina Steinbrecher-Pfandt
Blockchain.art
Co-Founder & CEO
