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The New Museum Presents The Keeper

Excellence & Creation
Jul 24, 2016

The New Museum is pleased to present a major exhibition “dedicated to the act of preserving and collecting objects, artworks, and images”.

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The New Museum is pleased to present a major exhibition “dedicated to the act of preserving and collecting objects, artworks, and images”. Open as of last Thursday, 20 July, The Keeper includes modern and contemporary works that might broadly be construed as archives or collections on an individual scale. Whether the accumulated objects are precious or personal, each of the disparate works serves as microcosms of museum collection practice while resisting easy characterization as found or hoarded objects.

Ydessa Hendeles’ “Partners (The Teddy Bear Project)” (2002) anchors the multi-floor exhibition. The Canadian artist-curator’s remarkable installation comprises over 3,000 family-album photographs of people posing with teddy bears, and actual teddy bears in vitrines. From rare stones to non-material objects such as voices, these works of aggregation speak to deeply personal narratives and obsessions. If each of the works is far greater than the sum of its parts, so too is The Keeper more than mere survey of collection-based artworks.

The exhibition is on view at the New Museum until 25 September 2016. The Keeper is curated by Massimiliano Gioni, with Assistant Curators Natalie Bell and Helga Christoffersen and Associate Curator Margot Norton.

Ydessa Hendeles, Partners (The Teddy Bear Project), 2002. Photograph by Robert Keziere
Ydessa Hendeles, Partners (The Teddy Bear Project), 2002. Photograph by Robert Keziere
Aurélien Froment, Théâtre de poche [Pocket Theater], 2007 (still). HD video, sound, color; 12:27 min. Courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris and Motive Gallery, Brussels. Photo: Aurélien Mole
Aurélien Froment, Théâtre de poche [Pocket Theater], 2007 (still). HD video, sound, color; 12:27 min. Courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris and Motive Gallery, Brussels. Photo: Aurélien Mole
Roger Caillois - Paradoxical agate with a polygonal cut of quartz (top), Variscite (bottom); from the stone collection of Roger Caillois
Roger Caillois - Paradoxical agate with a polygonal cut of quartz (top), Variscite (bottom); from the stone collection of Roger Caillois
Tong Bingxue, A Sixty-Two-Year Photo-Biography of Ye Jinglu - 1909 (left) & 1912 (right); Discovered by Tong Bingxue, 1907–68 (detail). © Tong Bingxue
Tong Bingxue, A Sixty-Two-Year Photo-Biography of Ye Jinglu - 1909 (left) & 1912 (right); Discovered by Tong Bingxue, 1907–68 (detail). © Tong Bingxue
Shinro Ohtake - Scrapbook #11, 1980 (detail) (top); Scrapbook #13, 1980 (detail) (bottom). © Shinro Ohtake. Courtesy Take Ninagawa, Tokyo. Photo: Kei Okano
Shinro Ohtake - Scrapbook #11, 1980 (detail) (top); Scrapbook #13, 1980 (detail) (bottom). © Shinro Ohtake. Courtesy Take Ninagawa, Tokyo. Photo: Kei Okano
Zofia Rydet, Zapis socjologiczny [Sociological Record], 1978–90. © Zofia Augustyńska-Martyniak. Courtesy Fundacja Sztuk Wizualnych and Zofia Rydet Foundation
Zofia Rydet, Zapis socjologiczny [Sociological Record], 1978–90. © Zofia Augustyńska-Martyniak. Courtesy Fundacja Sztuk Wizualnych and Zofia Rydet Foundation
Zofia Rydet, Zapis socjologiczny [Sociological Record], 1978–90. © Zofia Augustyńska-Martyniak. Courtesy Fundacja Sztuk Wizualnych and Zofia Rydet Foundation
Zofia Rydet, Zapis socjologiczny [Sociological Record], 1978–90. © Zofia Augustyńska-Martyniak. Courtesy Fundacja Sztuk Wizualnych and Zofia Rydet Foundation
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