Saturday, November 6, 2010

Claire Fontaine - Kultur ist ein Palast der aus Hundescheiße gebaut ist - MD 72 - Berlin




October 5th – November 13th, 2010


Claire Fontaine’s exhibition at MD72 takes its title from Bertolt Brecht’s sentence, quoted by Theodor W. Adorno, but whose source remains obscure, Kultur ist ein Palast der aus Hundescheiße gebaut ist (The palace of culture is built with dog shit). The artist starts from the consideration that, as Brecht states, our culture is now clearly a precarious and despicable construction unable to resist the assaults of liberalism and to protect bodies and objects from becoming commodities.

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