The exhibition “THE ARTWORK AS A SUSTAINABLE FRAGMENT OF THE PRESENT” will inaugurate the Fragmentation Museum in February 2025. Curated by the founder and the emerging curatorial team, this exhibition will showcase samples of fragments from several dozen authors, in various shapes and formats, attempting to define the phenomenon of the fragment in contemporary art today.
Through its exhibitions, the Fragmentation Museum actively responds to the social, political, and ecological challenges of the contemporary world, exploring art in the context of current reality and everyday life. This exhibition aims to define the fragment as a sustainable unit within contemporary art and illustrate the biodiversity of fragmentation phenomena and their manifestations in our civilization and daily reality.
The museum’s opening is scheduled for 02/05/2025 at 18:00 UTC. Portions of the collection, fragments, exhibitions, activities, and events associated with the concept of the Fragmentation Museum will be visible on fragmentation.fr and fragmentationmuseum.com, as well as on the YouTube channel O Art TV and websites sciarttech.com and circumnavigationart.com
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The exhibition
“THE ARTWORK AS A SUSTAINABLE FRAGMENT OF THE PRESENT”
will inaugurate the Musée de la Fragmentation on February 5, 2025 at 6:00 pm
In our expanding information cosmos, a new essential phenomenon is increasingly multiplying: an experience often encapsulated in a visual message accompanied by text, transmitted through the vast and boundless space of the internet as a global collector. The control algorithm performs an almost flawless selection of information, and only a small percentage of billions of fragments reaches the ocean’s shore, only to immediately remerge into the flow of the global collector and inevitable recycling in the next sequence. Our perception of reality is thus multiplied into an infinite number of realities projected onto our own plane—the flow of life, inevitably fragmented, erased by forgetting and the constant rewriting of the present, transforming it into a nonexistent past and future. There is no way to halt this flow of events and experiences or to grasp it in its entirety; there exists only an environment in a state of perpetual fragmentation. We can attempt to extract it, sample it through a cut and conservation process based on available technical capabilities.
The entity we have chosen to preserve in the Museum of Fragmentation is such a sample, a point of encounter and intersection between artwork and everyday life, a moment preserved regardless of its time, place, or origin.
In contemporary art, this means that the fragment brings an essential element back to the center of attention: the experience an artwork generates, irrespective of its age or form, bearing in mind the old truth that the same experience cannot be lived twice.
The Fragment is a cut, a symptom of contemporary art on the body of daily life. It has no limitation in place, time, space, dimension, technique, discipline, or form of expression. The fragment is an essential sample, a spark of an event, a moment of change, or its unfolding. The fragment is a work conveying an experience. It can remain open, unfinished, without a specific function. Any further verbal description would destroy the non-verbal essence of the image it represents. Not all works of art are fragments, just as not all fragments are artworks in contemporary art. A large number of fragments are irretrievably destroyed, forgotten, or overlooked, beneath or beyond the radar of attention. However, the invisibility, instability, or tendency of certain fragments to disappear, fall, or be erased does not diminish their value. By creating the Museum of Fragmentation, we establish a mechanism capable of recognizing, selecting, and preserving certain fragments and their memory. The fragment is an entity in itself. It may or may not be linked to its creator’s biography; the author sometimes remains anonymous, and the fragment functions independently in its interaction with the environment. It is a kind of non-verbal sentence that may sometimes include a verbal message. The fragment is an environment of experience, a document of ambiance