The title as the curator's art piece: Isabelle LE MINH, Jill MILLER, Miguel Angel MOLINA, Claude RUTAULT, Karin SANDER

In as much as the function of a title is to condense the subject matter of an exhibition or to summarize its essence, The title as the curator's art piece may appear rather puzzling.
This title - which sounds like a pure conceptual statement - is a work of Stefan Brüggemann, London based, Mexican artist, who has, for some years, been developing a list of exhibition titles (Show Titles) that are freely available.
On closer examination, this contradictory title could serve as a starting-point for many syllogisms, yet it seems more appropriate to consider its "functional" aspect, not as a statement but as an artwork. In fact, Show Titles are latent works, in the sense that they only exist as titles if they are used, they need to be “activated” by a third party, at which point they no longer entirely belong to the artist, thus becoming a type of collaboration.
The works in this exhibition have been selected precisely for their complex nature or their fluctuating status, somehow their “existential” nature: the manner in which they are defined with regards to their use or environment, their positioning / movement towards a context of art history or painting tradition, or how they may elude the artist...