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Texts by Juliette BlightmanJuliette Blightman nimmt scheinbar bedeutungslose Alltagssituationen als Ausgangspunktfür ihre Arbeiten. Durch subtile performative Eingriffe in ihr Umfeld deckt JulietteBlightman unterschiedliche, meist persönliche Erfahrungsebenen auf, die von denBetrachtern anhand eines Gegenlesens ihrer eigenen und der von Blightman vorgelegtenWeltsicht wahrgenommen werden können. Juliette Blightman takes apparently insignificant everyday situations as the startingpoint for her works. By making subtle performative interventions into a settingwith objective givens, Juliette Blightman uncovers diverse, mostly personal levels ofexperience which viewers can also perceive by revising their own worldview and thatpresented by Blightman

Juliette Blightman’s artistic engagement is based on observations and impressions of her life, of the reality that surrounds her every day. What comes together is a kaleidoscope of pictures of her family and friends, of travels, parties, and spending time together, of interiors and close-ups of details that are easily overlooked. For her exhibition Extimacy at Kunsthalle Bern in 2016, Blightman attempted to find a pictorial language for lived time, raising it above pure ephemerality. In her book Scripts, Descriptions and Texts 2011-2016, detailed descriptions of past exhibitions are collected alongside scripts for performances, her practice put into words. The collection is at the same time factual and poetic, recordings that evoke images anew. Texts by Tenzing Barshee, Kirsty Bell and Valérie Knoll form a third part of the book.