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What do you do when you can no longer reinvent the world, but there is still so much to say and so many questions to ask? Max Schaffer (*1985, lives in Berlin, and won the Bremer Förderpreis für Bildende Kunst in 2011) solves this problem by reinterpreting what already exists. He does this by displacing, dislocating and translating, and not least by continually undermining expectations that he himself has created.
In 2012, for example, he repurposed the old ventilation system of Vienna’s famous Secession exhibition hall, which had been dumped in the yard behind the building after it was …