‘Animism’ Exhibition by Anselm Franke at Ashkal Alwan

Attend “Animism” Exhibition curated by Anselm Franke at Ashkal Alwan

Opening: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 at 6:00 p.m.

Animism has been a multi-part exhibition project realised in various collaborations since 2010. The project interrogates notions of modernity through its ‘negative horizon’, animism. Originally an anthropological concept denoting humanity’s alleged original beliefs in an animated nature and migrating souls, this project conceives of animism not primarily as belief, but as a category in which modernity and state-reason imagined the absence or transgression of its own conceptual boundaries, chiefly between inanimate matter and non-humans, geared to delineate the status of “person” endowed with a voice and rights.