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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In legal terms, a port (or point) of entry is a place where one may lawfully enter a country. In computer programming, entry point is a memory address, where control is transferred from the operating system to a computer program, at which place the processor enters a program or a code fragment and execution begins. This exhibition, Point of entry, is meant to be a reflection on the strong \u2013 and often concealed \u2013 ties between boundaries, identities, selection, and memory.<\/p>\n

Boundaries as borders, defining one\u2019s status \u2013 accepted vs rejected \u2013 and right to stay in a given place in a given time. But boundaries also as porous demarcations: between here and there, now and then, visibility and concealment. Between \u2018identity\u2019 and \u2018identification\u2019, to borrow a fruitful concept from Stuart Hall. Because identity, which puts stress on status, can be neglected, or denied, and this constantly happens to people that are seeking shelter (refugium in Latin), and a legal recognition granted by an ID. Whereas identification emphasises an ongoing process, which cannot be rejected or isolated or regulated, and which belongs to all human experience. Memory in this context is the key to overcoming boundaries, categorization, and labels (citizen, migrant, refugee\u2026), an opportunity to familiarise with the dynamic porosity of \u201cus\u201d and \u201cthem\u201d, in time and space. And an undefined space for reconfiguring the self\u2019s narrative in a broader open collaborative narrative.<\/p>\n

The singular ability of Duncan Swann is to drag us into the complex ambivalence of point of entry\/entry point, and make us reconsider preconceptions and misconceptions of boundaries, identities, selection and memory. Layers of visual information present themselves as programmed stratifications (fragments of a given code, predictable operations of a system, destinies processed and selected) but also as their opposite: poured paint, fading profiles, overlaps of figures for an unpredictable outcome. The apparent standstill \u2013 history at a standstill, to quote Walter Benjamin \u2013 becomes animated. The selection then becomes random, casual, arbitrary (why us, here, quietly viewing paintings in a gallery, and them out there, displaced, exiled, unwelcomed?) but also disturbing (what if we were them?) and puzzling, with a \u201cgeographical discrepancy between here and there and a temporal maladjustment between past and present\u201d[1] which becomes more and more visible. And this visibility brings to the surface not only a handful of questions, but also a challenge that cannot be avoided and silenced any longer. Because, ultimately, in everybody\u2019s life there is an element of chance, and change, which escapes the matrix. To choose, instead of being chosen: a possible point of view, instead of a given point of entry.<\/p>\n

[1] I borrow this quote from Ranajit Guha, The Migrant\u2019s time, in Saloni Mathur (ed), The Migrant\u2019s time. Rethinking Art History and Diaspora, Yale University Press, 2011, pp. 4.<\/p>\n

As part of\u00a0CeLM Week<\/a>, Point of entry is on from this week, the June 15, 10:00 \u2013 16:00 and 18:00 \u2013 20:30 until June 25 at Studios, Building L04, London Road Campus, University of Reading. Entry is free and there is no need to book.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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