Exhibition on the Fractures of Architecture at Migros Museum Für Gegenwartskunst

ZURICH.- “Displaced Fractures – On the Fractures of Architecture and its Body” the exhibition is an initiative of the Siemens Stiftung and the migros museum für gegenwartskunst. Held in the migros museum für gegenwartskunst Zurich – December 11, 2010 – February 20, 2011. Since time immemorial, art has possessed sensitive antennae for all that is fragile, porous and vulnerable in humans. In this group exhibition, the fractures in human nature are not, however, negotiated directly with the body itself, but rather through representative forms of architecture. The fractures and interfaces of buildings form metaphors for the fissures in human existence. The eponymous term “Displaced Fractures” derives from medicine and describes the phenomenon whereby bone fractures appear at a place other than where the main strain is. The term &#147

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