Manifesta purposely strives to keep its distance from what are often seen as the dominant centres of artistic production, instead seeking fresh and fertile terrain for the mapping of a new cultural topography.
Manifesta 13 Marseille was one of the only international biennials to take place during the global pandemic COVID-19, the biennial ended earlier than planned due to the second national lockdown
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Peter Land, DK
Peter Land, The staircase, 1998. Photo © Galleri Nicolai Wallner.
Video installation at C.P.C.A.
In the basement of the C.P.C.A. Danish artist Peter Land presented his video installation in two parts. In one part, a film featured a man (the artist himself) who repeatedly falls down stairs. The continuous repetition made the act absurd, meaningless and even sad, as it represented continuous failure. In the other part, a starry sky appears in a seemingly immobile long-term temporality.