This exhibition shows how reading and interpreting literature is – in diverse ways – at the core of some of the most renowned contemporary artists’ practices today. It highlights that writers such as Joyce, Schiller, Beckett, Kafka, Sebald and Vonnegut have something to say to artists today. It also highlights that artists make a major contribution to how we can think about literature and aspects of the canon: they offer something relevant and liberating.
'Convergence', in exploring the relationships between art, literature and display, provides an alternative “monument” to writers, their works, to well-read artists, and to innovative ways of bridging these realms through exhibitionary practices.
