Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam presents the solo exhibition Zachary Formwalt – Three Exchanges. In three recent video installations, Zachary Formwalt focuses on the architecture of the new Shenzhen Stock Exchange and the Amsterdam stock and commodities exchange designed at the end of the 19th century by the socialist architect H.P. Berlage. The three installations examine a fundamental issue surrounding financial trade: whereas financial transactions seem to dictate our economy so that their effects can be felt everywhere, the activity of trading itself has become increasingly remote and seems to exclude the possibility of any kind of actual human encounter. The architecture of the stock exchanges serves as a starting point to a profound investigation into the limitations of photography to represent capital and ...
Kunsthalle Basel presents The Form of Practical Memory, the first major individual exhibition by the American artist Zachary Formwalt
The exhibition"s title borrows from one of Walter Benjamin"s passages: "Sammeln ist eine Form des praktischen Erinnerns" ("Collecting is a form of practical memory"). Formwalt"s work looks at the possibility of giving form to immaterial ideas and materializing processes whose internal workings usually remain obscure while their results can be seen and felt by everyone. How historical memory functions and fails, how the economy works and collapses, and how the two can be intertwined in still photographic images and film are the key questions in Formwalt"s work.
Zachary Formwalt employs a variety of media as means to critically investigate the me...