Author Description

"The exhibition entitled 'The Creative Act' brings together several artistic projects which use different methods to create narratives based on historical material. The exhibition has come about as the result of the recognition that many artists look on archives as an actively discursive system that they can utilise to point to phenomena of the times. In this context, "history" is taken to mean the recent past. The "creative act" is the artist's use of historical material in order to throw light on contemporary phenomena and issues, but also her use of the institution as a workplace for materialising the contents of the archives"--Gallery website.