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The Last Terminal, Volume II, Part 4: The Conformist

| 01/03/2024

18 November 2023—19 February 2024

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Katendrechtse Lagedijk 490B
3082 GJ Rotterdam (NL)

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<p>Exhibition view with <em>It pays to talk to no one, no one</em>, 2023, hammered in bridge from a pair of glasses.<br />Photo: Lotte Stekelenburg</p> <p><em>It pays to talk to no one, no one</em>, 2023, hammered in bridge from a pair of glasses.<br />Photo: Lotte Stekelenburg</p> <p><em>It pays to talk to no one, no one</em>, 2023, hammered in bridge from a pair of glasses.<br />Photo: Lotte Stekelenburg</p>

With works by: Shahin Afrassiabi, Steve Van den Bosch, Fischli & Weiss, Annaïk Lou Pitteloud, gerlach en koop, Olivier Goethals and Mathew Kneebone.

For a long time, Roland Barthes kept in a drawer a piece of rib that had been surgically removed from his chest when he was a child (by returning it to him the Swiss physicians stressed: your body belongs to you, every part of it). The drawer was the kind intended to ease the dying of objects, to let them acclimatise for a certain amount of time, in a long and bleak agony. If one day he manages—at last—to rid himself of this piece of bone by throwing it down from the balcony, he sends a scout ahead with that.