Opening: Outspoken. Voices beyond the Archive

The exhibition is an attempt to challenge, rewrite and ultimately to outwit the hegemonic canon. It focuses on individuals, animals, objects and historical figures that find a way to assert their presence, despite being deliberately excluded from the (universal) archives. Perhaps the way to outsmart such an unjust setting of single-sided narratives is to object to the usual road taken. Instead, we could opt for a path that guides us through the background, hinterlands and streets that have been neglected. The framework issues an invitation to leave the confines of the dusty old library with its dark ghosts (authoritarian regimes, the Orientalist gaze and other structures of control, including those imposed by the State and the archives). It urges us to reclaim the right to re-inscribe everything that has been left out. The artists gathered here provide a glimpse into various methods that reveal the fragmented narratives of appropriation, manipulation and masking. The group exhibition features photographs, sculptures, installations and videos by artists from different regions of the world.