Alicja Kwade

Polish-born and Berlin-based artist Alicja Kwade s most recent installation at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt takes as its inspiration the pendulum experiments of the nineteenth-century French physicist Leon Foucault, which provided evidence of Earth s rotation. A series of quasi-scientific set-ups [...]
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Polish-born and Berlin-based artist Alicja Kwade s most recent installation at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt takes as its inspiration the pendulum experiments of the nineteenth-century French physicist Leon Foucault, which provided evidence of Earth s rotation. A series of quasi-scientific set-ups installed in the Schirn Rotunda, Kwade s works superimpose established scientific knowledge and paradoxical social realities, resulting in a playful commentary on the transformation of space and the true movement of time.
The latest volume in a series of publications in cooperation with the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, this volume presents a detailed look at this complex work by a captivating, internationally acclaimed artist."