FORUM JAMES WEBB
James Webb will discuss his recent exhibition, One day, all of this will be yours, which was presented at Blank Projects in Cape Town earlier this year, through a restaging of the documented works accompanied by the story of the show.
The artist will retell the exhibition to the audience in Bergen, discussing how the show tied six years of site-specific works realised all over the world together. Webb has worked in such sites as the Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, the former radio station of the DDR Communist Party in Berlin and the tumultuous area of District 6 in Cape Town, drawing on site related specificities.
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James Webb (b. 1975, lives and works in Cape Town) has worked on both large-scale installations in galleries and museums and unannounced interventions in public spaces since 2001. His work questions the nature of belief in our contemporary world, often using exoticism, displacement, and humor to achieve these aims. He has participated in exhibitions including CAPE 09, Cape Town’s second Biennial of Contemporary African Culture (Cape Town), "This Is Now 2" in Johannesburg and at L’appartment 22 (Rabat), and the 9th Biennale de Lyon.He is currently artist in residence at USF Verftet and shows works in an exhibition at Galleri 3,14, in collaboration with Maia Urstad (Maur prosjekter) and BEK.