What Continues
Clémentine Adou, Kevin Jerome Everson, Hemansingh Lutchmun
5 Apr–18 May 2025

Every year during the Christmas shopping period, two long-standing luxury department stores in Paris attempt to outdo each other with spectacular window displays. They stage elaborately designed scenes with animated puppets, providing a glimpse of capitalism dreaming. On a sugar cane plantation in Mauritius, workers tend to the extensive gardens surrounding a 19th-century colonial chateau. Owned to this day by the same family, the estate is now a popular tourist attraction. At an air force base in Columbus, Mississippi, a pilot in training undergoes a vertigo test. He performs various exercises while his body spins in circles, first slowly, then faster.

Terms like disruption, crisis and catastrophe are used to describe the present as a time of upheaval. In the face of deep ruptures, however, we can lose sight of the continuities that shape day-to-day experiences, through which institutions, social structures and power relations are stabilised and reproduced. The exhibition What Continues looks at continuities – at routines, workflows, habits and rituals. They are embedded in social orders that are furthermore reflected in visual relationships: in what ways are supposedly uninvolved observers entangled in violent continuities?

Image: Clémentine Adou, Xmas, 2019–24, Videostill, Courtesy the artist

Programme

Fri, 4 Apr 2025, 7 pm
Opening Night with an Introduction by Heinrich Dietz

Wed, 9 Apr 2025, 7 pm
Curator’s Tour with Heinrich Dietz

Wed, 23 Apr 2025, 7 pm
Table Talk
Criticising Capitalism
with Gruppe Gesellschaftskritik Freiburg

Mon, 28 Apr 2025, 6 pm
Table Talk
Power Structures
with Joanne Rodriguez

Mon, 5 May 2025, 6 pm
Table Talk
Being Human
with Isabelle Ihring

Sun, 11 May 2025, 2–4 pm
Workshop for Children 6–12 years
(registration required)

Wed, 14 May 2025, 7 pm
Guided Tour with Marilena Raufeisen

Fri, 16 May 2025, 7 pm
Presentation of the De/Coloniality Now initiative of the University of Freiburg with Ercüment Çelik, followed by an Artist Talk with Hemansingh Lutchmun