Collection Count + Care with DisplayCult, Portraits as Portals

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PORTRAITS AS PORTALS / DES PORTRAITS COMME PORTAILS, DISPLAYCULT (JENNIFER FISHER AND / ET JIM DROBNICK)

My contribution to Agnes’s Collection Count + Care series is a meditation on the medium of curating as a radical form of relationality. Working with embodied, haptic and affective modalities to enliven western art historical research, DisplayCult’s Portraits as Portals is an art project that conjures the etymological roots of exhibition—“to hold forth”—in ways that work through Agnes’s collections. DisplayCult’s investigations with clairvoyants resound vibrational traces of unattributed European artworks through mediumistic portrayal. Paintings become portals into the milieu of the unknown artist’s life as clairvoyants see through the eyes of the painting’s subject. Here, “curatorial forensics” can evidence alternative forms of connection through empathy and insight.

Curated by Emelie Chhangur

Speaker / Présentatrice
Jennifer Fisher

Jennifer Fisher and Jim Drobnick comprise DisplayCult, a curatorial collaborative devoted to rethinking aesthetics and practices of display from sensory, affective and paracuratorial standpoints. / Jennifer Fisher et Jim Drobnick forment DisplayCult, un collectif de commissaires qui se consacre à repenser l’esthétique et les pratiques d’exposition d’un point de vue sensoriel, affectif et paracuratorial.

Portraits as Portals comprises an exhibitionary output of The Medium in the Museum, a research-creation project by Jennifer Fisher and Jim Drobnick, supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. / Des portraits comme portails est une déclinaison de The Medium in the Museum, un projet de recherche-création de Jennifer Fisher et Jim Drobnick, soutenu par le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada.