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.
Participant
Christine Borland, GB
Christine Borland, 5 Set Conversation pieces, 1998. Photo © Roman Mensing / Manifesta 2.
Sculptures at Casino Luxembourg
For Manifesta 2, British artist Christine Borland casted fetal skulls in bone-china pelves. The artist then decorated these pelvises and fetal skulls with blue and white patterns. These patters, borrowed from 18th-century British adaptations of East Asian porcelain china, included commemorations of ships leaving the port to engage in colonial trade and slave trade.