Leaves for Burning: Cog∙nate Collective, Bassem Saad and Artur Zmijewski

Curated by Juli Carson and Heather M. O’Brien

October 1 - December 10, 2022
Opening Reception: Sat., Oct. 1 at 2:00 p.m.

Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) Gallery
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Leaves for Burning takes its title from Peter Weiss’s 1964 play Marat/Sade, a thought experiment about the reciprocity of the Terror and the French Revolution. In 2022, democracies grapple with this legacy. Accordingly, Leaves for Burning features three solo projects by Cog∙nate Collective, Bassem Saad, and Artur Żmijewski that perform a collaborative inquiry into biopolitics, inspiring a blazing life drive to counteract the beat of a global death drive.

_{IMAGE: Artur Żmijewski, Compassion, 2022. Film still, Single channel video, color, no sound, 10'10". Produced by PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milano. Courtesy Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw and Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich.}

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