Andy Rankin



        Hello, I am an independent self-taught curator based in Paris. I conceive exhibitions as performative protocols that can be activated by myself or others, unfolding through contingent interactions rather than static display. My curatorial practice is drawn to artistic strategies that embrace destruction, material transformation, and participatory engagement, questioning the exhibition space and its possibilities.

        For several years, I have been conducting an ongoing research on disasters and their iconographies, focusing on the ways catastrophes are aestheticized, archived, and re-enacted within artistic and curatorial discourses. This inquiry extends to the traces of lost, vanished, or missing artworks, culminating in the Oblivion Collection, a participatory online archive dedicated to gathering remnants and spectral evidence of disappeared art. By engaging with the visual and conceptual residues of destruction, my curatorial research interrogates what remains, what is forgotten, and how disappearance itself might become an artistic gesture.

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StudioPoush
153 Avenue Jean Jaures
93300 Aubervilliers Represented bypal project
39 Rue de Grenelle
75007 Paris

1816 - The year without summer



Location

artgeneve
Route François Peyrot 30
1218 Le Grand-Saconnex

Dates

26 January 2023
29 January 2023


Co-curator


Yvannoé Krüger

Photo credits

Julien Gremaud

Artists

Hugo Avigo, Taisiia Cherkasova, Caroline Corbasson, Morgan Courtois, Faye Formisano,
Nika Kutateladze, Clara Rivault, Anna Saint Pierre, Jesse Wallace, Xolo Cuintle

Statement


POUSH is an innovative venue dedicated to contemporary creation that hosts and supports 250 artists in a former industrial campus in Aubervilliers (France). They benefit from studios and additional support with their artistic development, production, administrative matters and communications. Under Yvannoé Kruger’s artistic direction, POUSH boasts a unique artistic program. For artgenève, POUSH showcases an exhibition enhancing the bubbling vitality of the international art scene based in Greater Paris.


1816 - The Year Without a Summer - The eruption of a volcano in Indonesia plunges the planet into an unending winter, with the sky glowing in whimsical shades of ochre and purple. On the shores of Lake Geneva, the novelist Mary Shelley and the poet Lord Byron are inspired by this cataclysm and have produced masterpieces. POUSH pays tribute to this particular moment in modern history, largely forgotten, by inviting POUSH residents to create an environment inspired by this catastrophe.