Alterity Display
(2004)
Lawrence O’Hana Gallery, London
Céline Condorelli, with Lali Chetwynd, Emanuel Danesch and David Rych, Lothar Götz, Sophie Newell, Seb Patane, Simon Popper, Giles Round, Haegue Yang. Curated by Julia Höner and Pablo Bronstein.
Alterity Display was a series of short-term interventions in the gallery space by eight artists, comprised of exhibitions, screenings, performances and talks. Each project was linked by a flexible structure specially commissioned of Céline Condorelli; a framing device that each artist was free to use as a tool, or to react against.
In Alterity Display traditional long-term exhibition strategies were temporarily disregarded in favour of a ‘laboratory’ approach, and a space for trying out aesthetic concepts in a variety of media. The show tested the gallery’s implied ethos of neutrality, contrasting economic efficiency with the absurdity of an accelerated, constantly changing display.
