The title*\u00a0of the exhibition references the best-known work of the internationally recognized Latvian-born film director Herz Frank (1926\u20132013):\u00a0Ten Minutes Older<\/i>, the calling card\u00a0of the Riga school of documentary cinema. The basis of this laconic and, at the same time, conceptually loaded short film, included in the presentation,\u00a0is a recording of children\u2019s faces during a chronologically short period of life, progressing through a partially intentional directed dramaturgy \u2013 \u201cinhalation, culmination and exhalation\u201d (Frank) and serving as a visualization of the ability to capture the moment, to sense, and to foresee.<\/p>\n
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These aspects also represent essential associated qualities in the work of Kim?, which after 15 (formative) years, continues to be preoccupied with the context of making art, the conditions and methods of producing works, circumvention of the conventions of exhibition-making, the actualization of historical references and sources as well as interaction- and collaboration-based strategies directed towards mutually interested symbiosis between the institution, participants in its program and visitors.<\/p>\n
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The exhibition comprises an overview of recent works by participants in previous exhibitions at Kim?, which demonstrates the trajectory, established style, and subsequent development of their respective creative practices. The eclecticism of the presentation echoes the institution\u2019s conscious artistic, discursive, and aesthetic heterogeneity and the principle \u201cI am different things in different contexts\u201d which makes it possible to conjure up a discursive field among such otherwise limiting labels as \u201cconceptual\u201d, \u201cformal\u201d, \u201cobject-orientated\u201d and \u201cpolitically tinged\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Presented following the principle of the Salon,\u00a0Formative Years\u00a0<\/i>functions as a selective overview and a look back at the exhibition program of Kim?, at the same time celebrating the continuation of relationships both with the participants in this exhibition and with other artists, who, on this occasion remain \u201cout of the frame\u201d.<\/p>\n
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We would like to express our gratitude to all the participants in the exhibition, the managers of the artists\u2019 studios, and the galleries Peres Projects, Herald St, Bortolami, Temnikova & Kasela.<\/i><\/p>\n
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* The word \u201cpadsmit\u201d in the exhibition\u2019s Latvian title refers to any number between 10 and 20<\/p>\n
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Supported by:<\/b><\/p>\n
The Ministry of Culture, State Culture Capital Foundation, Valmiermui\u017ea<\/p>\n