Acte de présence
- art
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exhibition
Restitution of the artist residency.
Being present is a social duty. In its most common sense, it means fulfilling an expectation: to be there out of duty, out of propriety, so as not to fail in some form of implicit obligation. But this gesture has other meanings. To act in the legal sense means to make something official, valid, legitimate. Presence then becomes a recorded fact—in the form of a contract. For Sam Krack, this dimension is embodied in concrete elements: a contract for hire, for instance, records the presence of an object in the home of the collector or borrower.
The word 'act' also conjures the theatre register: being an actor. Sam Krack acts out the presence of things, spaces, and structures. Using a range of artistic practices, he explores, unveils, and highlights what is often invisible: partitions, walls, hidden volumes, plasterboard. Added to this is a work on multiplicity of perceptions: the physical and material presence, as well as the social presence, the invisible and forgotten presences of the past, archives, the melancholic sensations tied to places once inhabited by family. Sam enacts the presence of the past by returning to the fold.
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41 Rue Notre Dame
2450 Ville-Haute Luxembourg
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