Artists: PARKing CHANce, Mira Mann, Ana Mendieta, Pamela Rosenkranz, Jura Shust
Exhibition title: Sacred Threads
Curated by: Olga Generalova
Venue: Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
Date: March 2 – April 28, 2024
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg
Note: Exhibition text is available here
Throughout history, social systems have included places for contemplation and activities that help us feel connected to something greater than ourselves. These activities often involve events and rituals that facilitate transcendence and interconnectedness.
The exhibition Sacred Threads includes works by PARKing CHANce – Park Chan-wook (1963) and Park Chan-kyong (1965) –, Mira Mann (1993), Ana Mendieta (1948 –1985), Pamela Rosenkranz (b. 1979), and Jura Shust (b. 1983), artists from different continents with distinct cosmologies and transcendental cultures. It explores how this ancestral knowledge has evolved and continues to influence our contemporary lives and artists’ works. From our governance structures and languages to ceremonies, relationships between nature and technology, and creation stories, this exhibition draws narratives that connect us to our past, future, and sense of identity.
Exhibition view, Sacred Threads, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg Mira Mann, look with love, 2023. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and DREI Mira Mann, look with love (detail), 2023. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and DREI Mira Mann, look with love (detail), 2023. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and DREI Exhibition view, Sacred Threads, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC Exhibition view, Sacred Threads, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg Pamela Rosenkranz, Healer Scrolls (Jungle Pad), 2023. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Karma International, Zürich Pamela Rosenkranz, Healer Scrolls (Silver Lion), 2023. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist and Karma International, Zürich Jura Shust, Two or Three Girths Wide, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist Jura Shust, Two or Three Girths Wide, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist Exhibition view, Sacred Threads, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Exhibition view, Sacred Threads, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Exhibition view, Sacred Threads, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Exhibition view, Sacred Threads, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Exhibition view, Sacred Threads, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Mira Mann, feed the spirits (detail), 2022. Photo: Guillaume Python. Collection Julia Muggenburg Jura Shust, Sunlit the Cortex, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist Jura Shust, Sunlit the Cortex, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist Exhibition view, Sacred Threads, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Exhibition view, Sacred Threads, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy Jura Shust, Leaving an Annual Growth at the Top (detail), 2024. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist PARKing CHANce, Night Fishing (Paranmanjang), 2011. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist. Production by MOHO FILM PARKing CHANce, Night Fishing (Paranmanjang), 2011. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist. Production by MOHO FILM PARKing CHANce, Night Fishing (Paranmanjang), 2011. Photo: Guillaume Python. Courtesy of the artist. Production by MOHO FILM
