CAITLIN RUETER
ORIGINS, OR WHAT WE CARRY
26 June – 6 August 2022
The exhibition
CAITLIN RUETER
ORIGINS, OR WHAT WE CARRY
26 June – 6 August 2022
In Origins, or What We Carry, Caitlin Rueter combines archival and contemporary images – photographs, maps, and original text – to tell the story of one family’s 1924 migration from Europe to Canada. Borrowing its form from European fairy tales, the text describes the dreams, unmet aspirations, and complicated legacy of this family through the lens of the objects they carried with them during their migration. This is an origin story based on a fanciful tale about what those objects were and meant to their creators and what they are and mean to those who possess them now. Traditional fairy tales can’t be read as traceable historical texts; they predate their transcription. By nature, they are living stories that bend to fit the values, admonitions, and fears of the time. Origins, or What We Carry centers on a migration story but bends the narrative to address the limits of cultural transfer and the malleability of and inconsistencies inherent in historical perspective, interpretation, and memory.
Exhibition opening
Saturday, 25 June 2022 at 6 pm | 7 pm
bildkultur | galerie, Markelstr. 19, 70193 Stuttgart
We kindly ask you to make a binding registration by June 20th for one of the indicated times under 0170-3106158 or info(at)bildkultur.de.
Introduction
Dr. Matthias Bullinger, bildkultur Stuttgart
The exhibition is on view
from Sunday 26 June – Saturday 6 August 2022
Gallery hours
On appointment:
info(at)bildkultur.de
+49 170-3106158