HEKTOR MAMET

Production²

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OPENING:  Saturday, 25 June 2011 – H. 6.30 pm

27 June 2021 – 25 July 2011

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On Saturday 25th June Artericambi gallery will be showing Hektor Mamet’s project Production square. What the artist calls a genuine postproduction process, in the sense of the term used by Nicolas Bourriaud in Postproduction (2002), domestic objects have been separated from their function, changed, or reconstructed with unsuitable materials; the spectator is therefore engaged in questioning our perception of reality.

The “products” on show are accompanied by a catalogue published with the help of the Swiss Institute in Rome where Hektor Mamet is resident/member from September 2010 to July 2011.

This catalogue, published in the form of an instructions book, will back up the drawings of each work – which the artist has created as though they were “items” for sale in department stores – with texts taken from other manuals; these, without giving the viewer any further useful information for interpretation, will actually delete the very meaning of each work.

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Hektor Mamet, Installation view of “Production”, 2011

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BIO

Hektor Mamet is a Swiss artist, born in 1983. He studied an MA degree at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London; he also studied in Paris in the Programme de recherche “La Seine” at (E.N.S.B.A.).25.06.2011 – 10.09.2011.

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