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2nd of October 2009 – 20th of June 2010
MEG | Conches
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This exhibition sheds light upon the practices of cultural interpretation by displaying a particular collection of Soviet objects in an unconventional way. The MEG has opened its collections to a team of anthropologist and artists from post-socialist countries like Slovakia, Ukraine, Russia or the former GDR, who gauged into the merits and perils of a cross-disciplinary approach into a specific type of material culture in collaboration with colleagues from formerly so-called non-communist countries (the West). |
Pirogovo : Musée National d'Architecture et de Moeurs, intérieur d'une maison dans le Village Socialiste. © MEG 2009. Photo : Willem Mes
The result is a presentation of over 1000 items for everyday use of Soviet provenance, innumerable objects from the museum's European department and objects from Emmaüs in Geneva. The display at MEG Conches uses the villa as an exhibition object by drawing attention to the magnificent architecture of the building. Spaces that have never been accessible before are open to the public.
"Villa Sovietica" invites the audience to relate to objects in a physical and sensory way by providing different angles with which to look at Sovietica playing with preconceived ideas. It gives us fragments, remnants, emotional and visceral glimpses into a reality between the former "East and West" that cannot be intellectually grappled with except in fleeting and indirect ways.
On a voyage from the cellar to the attic of the former Villa Lombard and selected spaces in the city of Geneva the museal machinery is put under scrutiny by turning the attention onto the object. Be welcome. The red carpet will be laid out before you, but beware: you may lose your balance when trying to walk on it.
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