A Climate of Trust

04/18/2015 by Bougy

Category: A Climate of Trust, Centrum Berlin, Non classé

2015, Mix media installation, Centrum Contemporary Kultur Berlin, Curators Mareike Spendel

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In his exhibition project at Centrum Sylvain Baumann is specifically interested in the idea that we currently live in what the artist calls a Climate of Trust. Baumann claims that in the more and more complex, multi-layered and mediated world of today, it is no longer possible to rely on our comprehension and reason as the basis for decision making. Our accelerated environments which are regulated through an increasingly complex and opaque network of rules and regulations, terms and conditions, require that we trust in our intuition. Baumann explores how contemporary design strategies and media imagery are used to speak directly to our instincts and asks, in a Climate of Trust, is there any space left for doubt and are individual thought and agency still possible at all? (excerpt from the press text)

Installation views: Ute Klein