Words Don't Go There
Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Nina Emge, Lamin Fofana, Barbara Kapusta, Ndayé Kouagou, Tarek Lakhrissi, Julia Phillips

Name: Words Don't Go There
Start: 2023-07-01
End: 2023-10-03
Location: Kunstverein Braunschweig

Jul 1 – Oct 3, 2023

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Image: Barbara Kapusta,
We feel the same. Don’t we?, 2022,
Futures is an alphabet of 26 characters designed by Sabo Day for Kapusta’s eponymous show at Kunsthalle Bratislava in 2022
Courtesy: the artisit / Gianni Manhattan, Wien
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Barbara Kapusta, Fragiles, 2023
Exhibition view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2023
Courtesy: the artist, Kunstverein Braunschweig
Photo: Stefan Stark
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Nina Emge,If it’s a dream, then make it come true (Stück für zwei Streicher und drei Stimmen), 2022/2023
Exhibition view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2023
Courtesy: the artist, Kunstverein Braunschweig
Photo: Stefan Stark
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Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Silent, 2016
Exhibition view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2023
Courtesy: the artists, Galerie Marcelle Alix, Paris, Kunstverein Braunschweig
Photo: Stefan Stark
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Tarek Lakhrissi, 2023
Exhibition view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2023
Courtesy: the artist, Galerie Allen, Paris, Kunstverein Braunschweig
Photo: Stefan Stark
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Tarek Lakhrissi, Come to Me, 2023
Exhibition view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2023
Courtesy: the artist, Galerie Allen, Paris, Kunstverein Braunschweig
Photo: Stefan Stark
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Ndayé Kouagou, Sorry not sorry, 2023
Exhibition view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2023
Courtesy: the artist, Nir Altman, München, Kunstverein Braunschweig
Photo: Stefan Stark
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Ndayé Kouagou, The world, 2023 (Detail)
Exhibition view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2023
Courtesy: the artist, Nir Altman, München, Kunstverein Braunschweig
Photo: Stefan Stark
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Lamin Fofana, Here Lies Universality, 2022
Exhibition view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2023
Courtesy: the artist, Kunstverein Braunschweig
Photo: Stefan Stark
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Lamin Fofana, Here Lies Universality, 2022 (Detail)
Exhibition view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2023
Courtesy: the artist, Kunstverein Braunschweig
Photo: Stefan Stark
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Nina Emge, Mixtapes: feelings grief in the three of us, or: sometimes it just happens 2023
Exhibition view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2023
Courtesy: the artist, Kunstverein Braunschweig
Photo: Stefan Stark
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Barbara Kapusta, 2023
Exhibition view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2023
Courtesy: the artist, Kunstverein Braunschweig
Photo: Stefan Stark
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Ndayé Kouagou, 2023
Exhibition view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2023
Courtesy: the artist, Nir Altman, München, Kunstverein Braunschweig
Photo: Stefan Stark
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Ndayé Kouagou, A Key is a key and this is the one #2, 2023
Exhibition view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2023
Courtesy: the artist, Nir Altman, München, Kunstverein Braunschweig
Photo: Stefan Stark
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Julia Phillips, Fingers, 2014
Exhibition view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2023
Courtesy: the artist, Kunstverein Braunschweig
Photo: Stefan Stark
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Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Microphone Piece (i want), 2022
Exhibition view at Kunstverein Braunschweig 2023
Courtesy: the artists, Galerie Marcelle Alix, Paris, Kunstverein Braunschweig
Photo: Stefan Stark

How does language structure community? And what is left unsaid? The interdisciplinary exhibition project Words Don't Go There presents spatial sound and text works as well as videos and performances that focus on poetry and language as a means of (world) inquiry. Each language forms its own order in which some ways of experiencing the world find no place. The artistic contributions reveal this limiting effect of language and reflect on its social, political and poetic consequences. Through sound and acoustics, sculptural practice, performance or silence, they intervene in the existing linguistic and architectural environment of Villa Salve Hopes. They enable marginalized voices to be heard, overwrite unambiguously inhabited spaces, open up new ways of accessing the world by breaking away from everyday understandings of language, uncovering unexpected horizons of possibility, and placing hitherto marginalized experiences and forms of expression at the center. The exhibition also consists of workshops, lectures, and performances that take up and expand upon the themes and concerns of the project in manifold ways.

Curator: Benedikt Johannes Seerieder
Curatorial assistance: Gesa Vorpahl

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Words Don't Go There is supported by: