Artists:
Hans Bellmer, Marcel Broodthaers, Heidi Bucher, Haneyl Choi, Ida Ekblad, Lewis Hammond, Hu Xiaoyuan, Li Liao, Shinoh Nam, Meret Oppenheim, Yun Suknam, Zhang Xiaogang / Johannes Hoerning, Ser Serpas, Jiwei Ci, Yang Zi, Francesca Gavin, Olamiju Fajemisin, Yang Naitian, Unica Zürn
Catalogue of the group exhibition “Reconstruction 重建” curated by Aita Sulser and Johannes Hoerning at Karma International, Zurich (Sep 17 - Oct 30, 2021), including works by Hans Bellmer, Marcel Broodthaers, Heidi Bucher, Haneyl Choi, Ida Ekblad, Lewis Hammond, Hu Xiaoyuan, Li Liao, Shinoh Nam, Meret Oppenheim, Yun Suknam, and Zhang Xiaogang. The exhibition comprised nearly sixty works, poems, and essays by twelve international artists, eight writers, philosophers, and poets. Taken together, they offer an investigation into almost a century of reconstruction of bodies, objects, and ideas, from 1934 to 2021.
This richly illustrated book features poems by Hans Bellmer, Meret Oppenheim, Ser Serpas, and Unica Zürn, as well as six critical essays by Jiwei Ci, Olamiju Fajemisin, Francesca Gavin, Johannes Hoerning, Yang Zi, and Yang Naitian, which explore the concept of reconstruction in its aesthetic, cultural, material, and political dimension.
Design by Benjamin Schwartz.
