SCRIPT – MEMORY is a group exhibition. Participating artists are Chaumont-Zaerpour, Heresies, Chris Kauffmann, Fernanda Laguna, Jordan Lord, Tiphanie Kim Mall, Rietlanden Women’s Office, Niklas Taleb.

Playing it by the book is a necessity of our social contract. It is also its bane. We meet, greet and are in touch – the success of which is based on common codes. As a child you begin to abide by a script, rehearse, learn it off by heart. The script includes your “we”, the people in your immediate and not so immediate surroundings, and you become with them, are familiar, repeat. Securing the ego (which does not necessarily mean security of the ego), the return to the known, is at the core of this repetition. Craving an entity that reinforces and embalms it, automatisms arise, and the most subtle but defining mechanisms of reproduction occur – gesture, rhetoric, tone. Memory is cunning, it clouds recollection in the soft padding of comfort. It’s a fuzzy space in the mind between reality and fiction.
The works in this exhibition express the need for a gesture toward a loss of control in order to overcome one’s own being in the world. They set a stage for a scriptless act, bound by and fraught with (mis)understanding that could potentially change memory’s course.