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European Civilization. Peter the Great and the Order of Things

We cordially invite you to the Warburg-Haus to the book presentation with Fari Shams on Monday, October 25th, 2021, at 6.30 pm!

Her book is presented at the Warburg-Haus on the occasion of her exhibition at 8er Salon, Hamburg, from October 22nd to 29th, 2021:

Fari Shams in conversation
with

Bill Sherman, Director, The Warburg Institute, London
Uwe Fleckner, Director, Warburg-Haus Hamburg

Moderated by Leena Crasemann, Warburg-Haus / International research project »Bilderfahrzeuge«

Fari Shams’ project European Civilization, Peter the Great, and the Order of Things presents itself in various ways: as installation (2014), a post-Internet speculative data calculator, and finally in the form of a book. The artist took the risk of confronting big data strategies, by dissolving the borders between objective/subjective, text/image, and archive/algorithm with respect to historical systems of classification. From alphabetization to Diderot’s Encyclopedia and Adanson’s classification of plants in Senegal; each attempt at organizing knowledge, though obsolete for today’s science, generates unexpected connections and iconographies in its contemporary re-processing. The three essays published here take this work as a starting point for travelling the space of human culture that always seeks to delineate and classify in order to understand and eventually take control.
Fari Shams is an artist living and working in Düsseldorf and London.

– Morad Montazami

Exhibition:

8er Salon, Trommelstraße 7, 20359 Hamburg
October 22nd – 29th, 2021
Opening:
Friday, October 22nd

Please note that the 2G-rule (convalescent or vaccinated persons) currently applies to access to events in the Warburg-Haus. Registration is required, please write to: crasemann@bilderfahrzeuge.org

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Book presentation with Fari Shams – European Civilization. Peter the Great and the Order of Things

European Civilization. Peter the Great and the Order of Things

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