OCAT Shanghai is proud to announce the opening of Crossovers – A filmic exploration of history, stories and human remains, scheduled for the 14th of June 2015. The group exhibition will be hosted by OCT Contemporary Art Terminal Shanghai, and is organized in collaboration with Arthub, a not-for-profit curatorial and art production platform based in Shanghai.

The exhibition looks into the role of the artist in shaping and reshaping a collective visual memory, the mechanism behind the creation of new myths and the ways in which both circularity of time, or its linear interpretation, can be outwitted by the subjectivity of a video editing timeline. The project is presented as an itinerary, a path that reveals subtle overlaps between history and fictional reconstructions, traded images from the past –their leftovers, in the contemporary tense– and appropriated, conflictive narratives.

Without clinging onto the past, or engaging in an over speculation about the rights and wrongs of images appropriation, the present exhibition aims instead at exploring the process of mythologisation. Collective narratives are made of the gaps and cracks that divide reality from the invisible, they feed on our fear and fascination towards the unfathomable and, just as the cinematic experience, they conjure up time.

Part of the works presented employ archival images to manufacture new narratives, whereas others invest particular moments in history –neglected by the contextually produced collective memory– with a brand new visual identity.

About the exhibition

Duration: Jun 14, 2015 - Aug 16, 2015

Opening: Jun 13, 2015, 18:00, Saturday

Venue: OCAT Contemporary Art Terminal Shanghai (Shanghai, China)

Curators: Francesca Girelli, Quadrio Davide

Artists: John Akomfrah, Yto Barrada, Eric Baudelaire, Ho Tzu Nyen, Joao Penalva, Thomas Sauvin

Courtesy of the artists and OCAT Contemporary Art Terminal Shanghai, for further information please visit http://arthubasia.org.