THE GLEANERS

With: Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi, Bastien Aubry, David Hammons, Sophie Jung, Hannah Külling, Sveta Mordovskaya, Selma Selman, Ser Serpas, Jiajia Zhang

The word “Abfall” in German means “waste” or literally the things that have fallen down. Does everything that touches the ground automatically become unwanted and trash? The semiotics of waste seems intrinsically rooted in a dynamic of verticality, in bringing things down. It is no surprise that the politics of class and culture are similarly modelled on the spectrum of high and low. 

Echoing Agnès Varda’s film, “The Gleaners and I”, the collective exhibition THE GLEANERS investigates the act of gleaning and how the gesture nurtures an alternative economy of distribution and supply. By fishing visuals, concepts and objects, artists are at the centre of this bottom-up practice, reappropriating and renegotiating systems of production, values and symbols.