Trust
Creative approach on excerpts from Libby Sacer's archive
"Trust" was the inaugural exhibition of the series of events entitled "Passport please", presented by the Libby Sacer Foundation as a part of the group's residency at CHEAPART.
Trust
In Trust exhibition, fragments of Libby Sacer’s archive are presented, as well as reconstructions and creative approaches to the material by the group's collaborators, some of which also function as trigger points for the events of "Passport please".
Participating artists, architects, writers and scientists: Elena Akyla, Nickos Giavropoulos, Roza Giannopoulou, Nelli Kamburi, Eftihia Kiourtidou, Vasiliki Kondili, Costas Korakis, Tina Cotsi, Euripides Laskarides, Michaela Liakata, Alexandros Maganiotis, Anna Maneta, Maria Sarri, Olga Spiraki, Myrto Stampoulou, Eugenia Tzirtzilaki, Dimitris Halatsis, Stefanos Handelis, Maria Fakinou.
About Libby Sacer
Libby Sacer remained unknown up until her death in 2013. Libby Sacer also Libby Saker or Liberty Sacer was born in Ethiopia in 1925. As she never had children, after her death, her will stated that all her property would be handed to the British artist and activist R.H., whom she had never met before. The heir, recognising the importance of the artefacts found in her house, hired a group of specialists to analyse and classify the findings. A series of discoveries concerning contemporary art and philosophy have started since. At Sacer's house in London, among other findings, there were important works of art by Klossowski, Claude Cahun, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Marcel Broodthaers and others. These works were thought to have been lost or were unknown.
There was also personal correspondence with over 20 prominent personalities of the last century from the fields of philosophy, politics and art, and rarities such as African ritual vessels and masks, stuffed animals, thousands of books, videotapes, audio cassettes and reels, a huge collection of male and female fancy dresses and accessories, and a series of personal objects that belonged to Albert Camus, Michel Foucault, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Guy Debord, Jack Smith, Hannah Arendt, Louis Althusser and others, meticulously archived. Notes and books by her were also found as well as recordings made by her; as it seems this material circulated exclusively from hand to hand. A few of her letters sent to key figures had been returned unread. The mass of the findings indicates her crucial role in several artistic, philosophical and political movements of a period covering more than half a century.
The group Libby Sacer Foundation was founded in January 2014. As ‘CHEAPART Resident 2014’ the group was hosted in CHEAPART's space and, inspired by Libby Sacer, opened up a dialogue with our origins and ‘ghosts’. Up until November 2014 the group curated and organised events, public talks, presentations, art shows and performances regarding the definitions and constraints of Body, Space and Identity, the ideological mechanisms that define them, and the concept of Mediation in art and public life. This series of events was entitled "Passport please".
CHEAPART Resident Program
An innovative program that supports and promotes contemporary art through art groups and curatorial practices. CHEAPART invites groups or curators to present their research and ideas in an annual program of exhibitions lectures, events. CHEAPART offers space and equipment for the implementation of the program. For the first period of 2013, the selected group was Salon de Vortex, followed by season of 2014 with the Libby Sacer Foundation.