Frames and Documents: Conceptualist Practices

The Catalogue for 'Frames and Documents: Conceptualist Practices' articulates a number of geographical and chronological crossroads that underline the role of the artist as a historian who deploys institutional critique (frames) and who questions the means of recording memory (documents).

Both of these roles relate to many aspects of Conceptualism, such as the dematerialization of the artwork, the destabilization of its status as a consumer object, an emphasis on communicating ideas, a rejection of the predominance of the visual, and the call to abandon the development of manual skills in the production of art.