Thu, 26.11.2026, 6.30-7.30pm
When artworks are allowed to change: The Preservation of She-Devils on Wheels
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What are the greatest challenges in conserving installation artworks? Unlike more fixed art forms, installations often change with each presentation, responding to a specific space, curatorial context, and sometimes even the people involved in their realization. How does an artist influence the form their work takes when it is reinstalled in a new environment? We will explore these questions through two works by Sylvie Fleury from the collection of Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst .
Variability can be an intentional aspect of an artwork, particularly in installations, but it can also result from conservation processes. Works incorporating time-based media often require interventions such as migration or digitization due to technological obsolescence. The moment of acquisition is therefore crucial, yet museums frequently have to reconstruct missing information retrospectively.
How can authenticity be preserved amid these changes? Which elements of a work remain constant, and which are open to transformation? Who decides? These questions become even more complex when artists are still actively involved and able to shape, reinterpret, or authorize changes to their own work.
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Language: English
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