The wall at the end of the rainbow

The wall at the end of the rainbow
Jan Van Eyck Academie
March 5th to April 24, 2020
Curated by Natasha Marie Llorens

You aren't supposed to see infrastructure: train signaling systems, wireless networks, water drainage. Infrastructure is just supposed to work or to make things work. But what do you not-see when everything is working, when you don't have to think about the infrastructure that allows for your perception of the world? What does infrastructure obscure? What does its absence reveal?

The wall at the end of the rainbow presents the work of ten artists who are fundamentally interested in the infrastructures that allow us to see food, territory, graphic design, art institutions, nature, borders, history, and plastic in a certain way and not in other ways. They are trying to rethink the system that makes tote-bags ubiquitous at Open Studios, the conventions that govern how much color you can use to make a poster before it becomes not-designed, and the distance from the ground you need to be able to see your food as food, and so on.


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Image : Massinissa Selmani, Untitled#3 (Escale), Escales series, 2018, Graphite and color lead on paper, 25 x 18,3 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou.