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Review| March 01 2023 Exhibition Review: Anne Imhof: YOUTH Anne Imhof: YOUTH. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands. October 1, 2022–January 29, 2023. Meital Raz Meital Raz Meital Raz is an art critic, curator, and a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, where she concentrates on exhibition research. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2023) 50 (1): 49–54. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2023.50.1.49 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Meital Raz; Exhibition Review: Anne Imhof: YOUTH. Afterimage 1 March 2023; 50 (1): 49–54. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2023.50.1.49 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAfterimage Search Visiting Anne Imhof’s exhibition YOUTH is a bewildering experience. On the one hand, it triggers a disturbing and disorienting feeling, and on the other hand, it evokes a peculiar sense of at-homeness. I have been here before, I know my way around here—this thought comes to mind while meandering through the 1,100-meter square labyrinth Imhof had built in the basement gallery of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, a space that usually houses the museum’s permanent collection. This fundamental tension between the feeling of home and the feeling of estrangement is at the heart of the labyrinthine exhibition, a genre that has its roots in the 1930s Surrealist shows and that reached its apex in Europe in the 1960s. Historically, the labyrinthine exhibition marked the transition from the traditional exhibitionary format of visual display toward dynamic and participatory forms. The visitor in the labyrinthine exhibition is not just a passive spectator... You do not currently have access to this content.
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