Friart – Stopover

Paola Junqueira, Jorge Macchi + David Oubiña, Fabiana de Barros + Michel Favre, Helena Ignez et Fabio Delduque, Nils Nova, Maria-Carmen Perlingeiro, Lia Menna Barreto, Sylvie Blocher, Marcos Chaves, João Modé, Riviane Neuenschnwander + Cao Guimarães, Rivane + Sergio Neuenschwander, Tomás Ochoa, João Onofre, Ana Roldán, Eduardo Srur, Julio Villani

18 February – 30 April 2006

Lia Menna Barreto, Arabescos de lagartixas, 2006. Photo: Dominique Uldry

The exhibition Stopover is akin to Fiction ou réalité? (2003) and Shifting Worlds (2005), presented over the past years in the Centre d’art contemporain in Fribourg. Stopover queries not only the notion of migration and movement ; it also highlights the fact that identities are shaped by real life experiences, and that they change throughout life. Confronted with the three original questions : Where do we come from ? Who are we ? Where are we going ? Every individual tirelessly attempts to identify and recompose the fragmented image of his or her own condition. The artists of Stopover all pass through this infinite scenery, be it near or remote, composing and associating their vision with that of others. Their works reflect the difficulty of identifying with a homogeneous culture and launch a dialogue between breach and tradition.