Henrike Naumann – Re-Education 22. September 2022 – 27. Februar 2023 SculptureCenter New York At SculptureCenter @sculpturecenter, Henrike Naumann has developed a museum-scaled display of dozens of furnishings and domestic items staged in a critical parody of the dubious “horseshoe theory.” The “horseshoe theory” was developed in Germany in the 1930s and revived in the 1990s both to establish the parameters of the political center and to treat far left and far right extremisms as equivalent threats to its order – as if they were the two ends of a horseshoe bending away from the middle and out of control at the same rate. Naumann’s exhibition rejects such superficial and misleading categorizations of centers and extremes by conducting an idiosyncratic survey of rural sensibilities in American interior design. Looking at the United States as an interested outsider, Naumann’s work uses found objects to test received ideas and expectations of the democratic “West,” as well as the fraught idealism and amnesia expressed in the norms of certain rustic contemporary design principles. #henrikenaumann #sculpturecenter Henrike Naumann: Re-Education is curated by Kyle Dancewicz, Deputy Director, SculptureCenter, with Christopher Aque, Exhibition & Program Manager. Project Curatorial Assistant: Leo Cocar. Supported by LEAP.
Additional support for Henrike Naumann: Re-Education is provided by the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V. and Goethe-Institut New York. Special thanks to Materials for the Arts (MFTA) Image: Henrike Naumann, 'Welcome to Bedrock‘, 2022, installation view, 'Henrike Naumann: Re-Education.‘ Courtesy the artist. Photo: Charles Benton