As part of Radio Luxembourg: Echoes across borders. New Collection Display, Mudam invites visitors to a series of conversations exploring the voices behind artworks – artists whose practices foreground sculpture, materiality and the narratives embedded in their medium of choice.

Through these talks, artists will share insight into their processes, their inspirations and the ways in which their work engages with cultural, social and political histories. From the transformations of found objects to the reinvention of artisanal techniques, from the legacies of industrial materials to contemporary ecological concerns, these conversations offer a unique opportunity to delve into new and existing works of Mudam Collection.

With a particular focus on the artists’ perspectives, the New Collection Display Artist Talk Series weaves connections between past and present, historical references and contemporary urgencies. The talks will highlight works that have recently entered the collection thanks to the generosity of German collectors Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann, with the support of the members of the Cercle des collectionneurs du Mudam.

Biography

Carine Krecké’s Navigation Poems forms part of the project 404 NOT FOUND (2012–6), created in collaboration with Elisabeth Krecké (1965). Between 2012 and 2015, the artists amassed several hundred screenshots of street views of Ciudad Juárez, captured using Google Street View. Located on the border with the United States, Ciudad Juárez has since the early 1990s been marked by a wave of missing and murdered women, with many of these incidents remaining unsolved. Using this extensive visual archive, the artists raise a fundamental question: can the city's violence be perceived in these images? Yet, because these images are the property of Google, they cannot be exhibited. The project thus explores a range of strategies for engaging with these restricted materials, one of which are the Navigation Poems written by Carine Krecké. Composed in English, the poems evoke scenes of daily life, drawn from the captured images, offering a sensitive and fragmented portrait of the city. Displayed on an electroluminescent sign – typically found in public spaces – they unfold as poetic shreds of a complex reality.