Über den Wert der Zeit – Museum Ludwig

Museum Ludwig presents the exhibition On the Value of Time from 10. August 2023 to 31. August 2025. Every two years, the Museum Ludwig shows works of contemporary art in a new presentation. This time, the installations Mountains of Encounter, 2008, by Haegue Yang (1971 in Seoul, South Korea) and The Documentary: Geocentric Puncture, 2014 by Guan Xiao (1983 in Chongqing, China) draw attention to different understandings of time.

Guan contrasts the belief in progress with the perception of time on the internet, in which present and past coincide. She printed large sheets of vinyl with snake patterns, which hang down from metal holders and also serve as a base for selected objects from different contexts. These are the latest optical devices, everyday objects and sculptures that cite the ancient symbol of the self-consuming snake (Ouroboros) and the stone head from Easter Island. Two surveillance cameras filming each other form the contemporary counterpart to the snake, in which the future and the past coincide in the present. The title “Geocentric Wound” is also to be understood in this sense. An outdated view of the world, according to which …

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Image above: Mark Dion GFLK Surveys Bureau, [Erhebungsbüro der GFLK], 2011 Installation; Holz, Tapete, sieben Uhren und andere Materialien, 290 x 390 x 120 cm Courtesy Mark Dion und Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin /Köln/München Reproduktion: Rheinisches Bildarchiv, Köln

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