Harutyun Simonyan   Uterus, 2002

The installation in the waiting room of Erlaufer Bahnhof is a kind of anti-monument that symbolizes the importance of the monument in relation to the collective and the individual symbolically with the terms “outside” and “inside”. In the video “Uterus”, the Armenian artist returned to a fetal state in an imaginary womb. At the same time, he transmitted the outside of the station to the interior of the waiting room via video camera.

Gina Pane L’homme à la branche verte qui n’avait pas lu les Fleurs du mal. Partition pour une blessure ( The man with the green branch that hadn’t read the Flowers of Evil. Score for a wound ),1982, Color pencil on wood, color pencil on felt, color photograph, block of wood, and cone in painted iron, 170 x 80 x 80 cm (66 7/8" x 31 ½" x 31 ½")

An Exile Dreaming of Saint Adorno

Siah Armajani, United States, 2009

“In this work, Armajani explores exile as a physical, political, and emotional condition. He quotes Alberto Giacometti’s surrealist masterpiece, The Palace at 4 a.m. (1932, pictured below), which resembles a miniature stage on which a mysterious play is being enacted. Similarly, Armajani’s cagelike structure is inhabited by a faceless figure who sleeps at a desk; outside and above, another watches. The two are frozen in this voyeuristic tableau, forever separated by the sculpture’s closed doors and glass walls. Armajani’s title references Theodor Adorno, the German philosopher who fled his native country during the Nazi regime. For him, exile was an ethical choice. As he wrote, “It is part of morality not to be at home in one’s home.” Medium:Glass, laminated maple, wood, paint, Plexiglas, copper, metal, clothing, fabric, plaster”

–Artifizz 

Doris Salcedo

Nov 7, 4 pm
280 wooden chairs and rope
Dimensions variable
Site-specific work, Palace of Justice, Bogotá, 2002

Some 280 wooden chairs were lowered from the roof of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá on the 17th anniversary of the siege of the Palace by M-19 guerrillas and the government’s counterattack in 1985.Noviembre 6 y 7, 2002