Bethan
Huws

Duchamp’s oeuvre, his readymades and installation with richly evocative titles, still full of unsolved riddles today, enticed Bethan Huws into speculating on the meanings of and encoding the obscure references. Through her many years of intensive investigation of Duchamp she developed her own profound referential framework and a highly original interpretation of the older artist’s ideas. With texts, photographs and notes on the artworks she has created a research laboratory, a kind of artistic mind map, opening a window onto understanding her threads of thought. This artist books documents all of her more than 500 notes.

The catalog is published on the occasion of the exhibitions “Il est comme un saint: il ne bouge pas” at the Kestnergesellschaft Hannover (5.3.2010 – 24.5.2010) und “Fountain” at the daadgalerie Berlin (2009).

With texts by Ariane Beyn, Veit Görner, Kirstin Schrader, Julian Heynen and a conversation between Bethan Huws, Kirsten Schrader and Ariane Beyn.