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After Pheidias is an exhibition of works by presently unnamed or unknown artists curated and authored by Ben Broome. The exhibited works were collected by Broome in late 2024 at flea markets across Paris where, guided by his own aesthetic sensibilities, he purchased only artworks and objects that have no practical use beyond ornament or aesthetics. In After Pheidias, Broome interrogates the processes by which an artwork is imbued with a perceived value or cultural importance. His own position, existing in a grey area between curator and artist, is also under scrutiny: If, in their current circumstance, the artists who made these works are unknown, when does the curator (the person responsible for the contextualisation) become the author? Curators have authority to aestheticise, name or contextualise an object — a power that should be wielded with care — this collection of works is organised according to the limitations of a single person’s knowledge and perspective.
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After Pheidias is an exhibition of works by presently unnamed or unknown artists curated and authored by Ben Broome. The exhibited works were collected by Broome in late 2024 at flea markets across Paris where, guided by his own aesthetic sensibilities, he purchased only artworks and objects that have no practical use beyond ornament or aesthetics. In After Pheidias, Broome interrogates the processes by which an artwork is imbued with a perceived value or cultural importance. His own position, existing in a grey area between curator and artist, is also under scrutiny: If, in their current circumstance, the artists who made these works are unknown, when does the curator (the person responsible for the contextualisation) become the author? Curators have authority to aestheticise, name or contextualise an object — a power that should be wielded with care — this collection of works is organised according to the limitations of a single person’s knowledge and perspective.
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