ART-PRESENTATION: Thomas Hirschhorn-Community of Fragments

Thomas Hirschhorn creates an artistic space within GL STRAND and invites the public to occupy it. The exhibition entitled “Community of Fragments” is created as a site-specific free access project on two floors and transforms the whole architecture of the museum.

Right from the main stairway that leads up through the gallery spaces, Hirschhorn let the fake cave or abandoned mine take over from floor to ceiling. All visitors are invited to participate in the reconstruction in a workshop located at the center of the exhibition. They are able to create sculptures and two-dimensional works that contribute to the exhibition; but one can also use the workshop for dialogue and debate. The admission to the exhibition is free.

Thomas Hirschhorn’s exhibition “Community of Fragments” turned GL STRAND into an anti-architectural space. The exhibition has been created as a site-specific free access project on two floors, and has transformed the whole architecture of the museum. Right from the main stairway that leads up through the gallery, Hirschhorn will let the fake cave or abandoned mine take over from floor to ceiling, so we are literally moving around on the premises of a destruction. In the exhibition the artist pays tribute to Antonio Gramsci and Simone Weil’s works for their fragmented nature, because both of them, due to life circumstances, never published an assembled book. Both of them left us “beautiful notebooks, which in their fragmented writing, are tools to reconstruct the world”. 

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