The New Museum Presents The Keeper
The New Museum is pleased to present a major exhibition “dedicated to the act of preserving and collecting objects, artworks, and images”.
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.
![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](https://tlmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/froment-tdp_028-682x1024.jpg)
![Zofia Rydet, Zapis socjologiczny [Sociological Record], 1978–90. © Zofia Augustyńska-Martyniak. Courtesy Fundacja Sztuk Wizualnych and Zofia Rydet Foundation](https://tlmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/rydet-zr_11_016_11-1024x819.jpg)
![Zofia Rydet, Zapis socjologiczny [Sociological Record], 1978–90. © Zofia Augustyńska-Martyniak. Courtesy Fundacja Sztuk Wizualnych and Zofia Rydet Foundation](https://tlmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/rydet-zr_02_023_17-1024x819.jpg)
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