Bildhalle

Courtesy Bildhalle

ReCollection forms the second chapter of Bildhalle's two-part presentation of Casper Faassen. The longstanding project grew out of the artist's profound interest in collecting, memory and the value we assign to objects. Through a process Faassen calls “ReCollecting”, he traces dispersed cultural objects and reimagines them through his distinctive visual language, examining how Western museum collections have been formed and how cultural authority has been historically constructed. While the colonial history of Faassen’s native Netherlands forms an important point of reference, ReCollection…