Overview
Works by Manuel Mathieu are included in the 15th edition of the Triennial of Small Sculpture Fellbach, titled 'The Vibration of Things'.
Curated by Elke aus dem Moore, the exhibition starts from the assumption that objects are vital, living, to deal with topical social questions of ownership, interconnectedness, resonance, restitution and responsibility.
The conception of objects having agency changes relationships in fundamental ways. Against the background of a forced migration of objects, through war and robbery, or other transfers into new social contexts, it becomes clear that relationships between different people – and their objects – have been violently interrupted.
The current controversy over restitution highlights the urgent need to restore these relationships. Beyond the restitution of property, this includes the recognition of other knowledge systems, including non-cognitive ones. Only in this way can relationships be restored that were, and are, being driven apart by colonialism, imperialism and capitalism.
