Fraction of Us is a personal/friend-based collection of various artworks intended for archiving information. It may be used for education or exhibition curation purposes. The information provided here is not guaranteed to be precise and is intended for personal, non-commercial use only. All information should be verified directly with the corresponding artist or gallery. All judgments expressed are subjective and reflect personal opinions. Please feel free to contribute new information as honestly and thoroughly as possible.

Hans Ulrich Obrist said in his book Ways of Curating: “Dialogues between artists and places, between publics and exhibitions, can be thrillingly catalysed by the forces of globalization. There is an amazing potential for new encounters among today’s fast-proliferating array of art centres. Yet homogenization is a danger too, as the Franch artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster has pointed out. For her, exhibitions are a way to resist the pressures towards an ever more uniform experience of time and space, by keeping the visitor in the art moment a little longer.”

“If that is to happen, it’s important to shape exhibitions as projectes of long duration and to concider issues of sustainability and legacy. Fly-in, fly-out curating hearly always produces superficial results; it’s a practice that goes hand in hand with the fashion for applying the word ‘curation’ to everything that envolves simply making a choice. Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curation follows art.”

“(The responsibilities of a curator)….are still well expressed by the meaning of its Latin etymological root, curare: to take care of.” This collection aims to take care of the art projects we have found online, seen, known, or heard of—especially the projects that leave a punctum in us (as Roland Barthes described)—so that we may be able to reveal them in the not-so-distant future.