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Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel at Z33

Glean 8, Summer 2025

Review by Sue Spaid

One model proposed for the visual art exhibition is the theatrical play. It is a stage setting minus performers, since we spectators are the actors who enact each scene, with the artworks serving as our ‘props’. Rather than reducing artworks entirely to props, however, this model assigns the spectator the role of script writer who imaginatively engages the set, each viewer coming away with their own plot. Following the Greeks, Hannah Arendt drew attention to the spectator’s significance, (…)

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