As a co-production of Ursula Blickle Foundation and Frankfurter Kunstverein, the exhibition Pensée Sauvage, which uses the title of the well known book by Lévi- Strauss, presents an interesting take on the actual fact of meeting the stranger and the notion of freedom. All the works selected for the exhibition have one common denominator: the desire to provoke a new confidence – confidence in our senses and in our capability to imagine the world beyond the anxiety of the everyday. The artworks perform a détournement, involving the viewer as an active operator, an editor, a translator, a transmitter. Pensée Sauvage intends to construct a state of persuasion where our appreciation of the aesthetic goes hand in hand with an invitation to exercise the political.

Artists: Lucas Bambozzi, Lene Berg, Andrea Büttner, Patricia Esquivias, Cao Guimarães, Henrik Håkansson, Tamara Henderson, Marine Hugonnier, Rosalind Nashashibi, Deimantas Narkevicius, Markus Oehlen, Maria Pask, Anu Pennanen, Mandla Reuter, Lisi Raskin, Aida Ruilova

The exhibition will be shown parallel in the Frankfurter Kunstverein (May 25 – July 8, 2007).