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Fragments

Pots, Patchworks, Power Figures

Elísio Macamo author Alexander Brust author Tabea Buri author Silvia Greber author Richard Kunz author Stephanie Lovász author Aila Özvegyi author Anna Schmid editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Hatje Cantz

Published:26th May '22

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Fragments cover

The collections of the Museum der Kulturen Basel contain numerous fragments that bear witness to practices of sharing and connecting. They include fragments from history, remnants of destruction, and once powerful objects made up of single parts. The publication shows how these things were handled in the past, and still are today. It sheds light on what it means to divide, repair, reassemble, even to let something fall apart.

Whichever, it is always a matter of (re)storing or creating a new order. Instead of seeing fragments exclusively as signs of loss or as witnesses to the inexorable passage of time, the authors focus on the power of connecting, the art of separating, and the force of destruction in the pieces presented.

ISBN: 9783775753074

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 800g

208 pages