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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To exhibit in case of emergency



Location

secret location
Cité Internationale des Arts
18 rue de l’Hôtel de Ville
75004 Paris

Date

to be activated at the collapse of late capitalism


Press


Allan Deneuville, Gala Hernández López, Ariane Papillon et Ysé Sorel Guérin for Marges #35

Photo credits

Salim Santa Lucia

Artists

Carla Adra, Asareh Akasheh, Ranti Bam, Cécile Bouffard, Kamil Bouzoubaa,Grivel, Alessandra Carosi, Anna Ceipe, Magali Dougoud, Elif Erkan, Nicolas Faubert, Clément Fourment, Juan Gugger, Nathalie Harb, Charlotte Heninger, Cedrick Isham, Daniel Jablonski, Ellande Jaureguiberry, Mathilde Lavenne, Mathias Leonard, Natalia Lopez & Abraham Poincheval, Domitille Martin, Léonard Martin & Elvire Caillon, Gabriel Moraes Aquino, Samir Mougas, Nefeli Papadimouli, Benoît Piéron, Margot Piétri, Camille Pradon, Baptiste Rabichon, Ghizlane
Sahli, Buhlebezwe Siwani, Kristoffer Stefan, Katarzyna Wiesiołek, Миша Завальный

Statement


It is 30 May 2021 and the collapse of the world as we know it has never been so close. The accumulating crises show us that we are in the midst of decadence. Humanity is in peril, and we have never been so aware of its fragility. But we will not mourn the wreckage of a world that has produced capitalism, pollution, borders, patriarchy and nuclear power plants. The world as we know it is on the brink of collapse, and we do not recognise ourselves in it.


Awareness of the dangers that lie ahead is the reason for that box you just found. We don't yet know how this world will collapse, but when it does, there will be an exhibition ready, and you have it with you. It's 34 miniatures made by artists at the Cité Internationale des Arts between 2020 and 2021. I have asked them to produce a miniature for this toolbox, so as to bring together an exhibition that will never have been seen in this world that is coming to an end. Of course, it will always be possible to see an exhibition in a museum or elsewhere, but it will always take as its starting point a world that is no more existing. 


“To exhibit in case of emergency” is an exhibition ready for the after world, for those who will endure the transition between the end and the beginning of a new world. Thinkers and statisticians predict a world of violence, chaos and death. In the rush, perhaps no one will think about the importance of poetry, art and beauty, which is why we thought of this mobile exhibition, which you can easily carry and handle. Its opening allows each work to stay in place, like an architecture in which your hands can wander. It's an art capsule as a shelter in during difficult times, and we hope it proves wrong all those who predict the worst.