Broken Secrets
Parallel Platform
English
Curated by Javiera Luisina Cádiz Bedini.
Softcover
70 pages
170 x 240 mm
2018
ISBN 9788894552102
Broken Secrets examines public and private conversations. Drawing from historical and contemporary narratives, the exhibition investigates distrust and deception, showing the fragility of institutional and personal connections and questioning the line between truth and falsehood.The project understands that there are undisclosed political operations at work, but also that these are accompanied by clandestine movements. How do secrets prevent freedom? How are we incarcerated, not only by what we know but by what we don’t know, by what is omitted?
In the realm of intimacy, Broken Secrets probes the self and associated relationships. It questions the role of fidelity or its absence. It looks at personal ties and family secrets by framing domestic spaces as ones that both liberate and constrict. By depicting diverse aspects of secrecy, four artists: Georgs Avetisjans (Riga), Yuxin Jiang (Shanghai), George Selley (London), Negar Yaghmaian (Tehran) actively take part in this dialogue. The stories embedded in their work tell secrets, keep secrets, or sometimes abruptly reveal them. They speak to larger questions of militancy, migration, oppression, and victimisation.
(source: https://brokensecrets.parallelplatform.org/about/)
About the Organisation
Parallel Platform is a platform that brings together creative European organisations committed to promoting cross-cultural exchanges and mentorships in order to set new standards in contemporary photography. Members include museums, galleries, cultural centres, festivals, art schools and publishers – 18 vibrant European cultural hubs, from 16 countries, that will participate in selecting and hosting emerging artists and curators, organising exhibitions and promoting artistic networking.
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(source: https://parallelplatform.org/curators/about/)
