Curatorial Studies

1M3, a cubic meter dedicated to the Kunstenbibliotheek's artists' book collection in Ghent, will feature the 2024 presentation A World Seen Through, curated by Jean Watt.

When an unknown back door turns a vitrine into a window, or a square pierces empty pages to expose a text printed on their backs, our surroundings are revealed as ways to see the world through. Glimpses of the street can be caught between parked cars as the bus goes by, figures can be grasped in the nearly closed curtains of a living room. At the edges, and the ends, and the backs, and the gaps, there is a life in passing motion.

A World Seen Through is a guide towards these gaps, a selection made for ways of looking and hiding. Use these as your glasses, your binoculars, your telescopes, your windows, your doors, your cat flaps, your eyes cut through a newspaper, the bottom of your beer glass, the gaps in your fingers with your head in your hands. If you listen at the open window, the cars and birds are coming in.

Jean Watt is studying on the Curatorial Studies postgraduate programme at KASK. She runs the site-specific curatorial project, A Place to Rest, situating artworks in unusual spaces.

Bibliography

Liz Allan

Bar Work

s.l. : s.n., 2014

Joseph Beuys

Entfernter Schauplatz: Photobuch in 50 Bildern von Volker Wilczek.

München /Frankfurt : Verlag Hubert Kretschmer, 1980

Sophie Calle

Moi Aussi

Paris : Editions 591, 2012

René Heyvaert

Kunst is een tweesnijdend zwaard.