title: You may never know what's causing
all the traffic
category: exhibition text
context: Marina Sula, You may never know what's causing
all the traffic, CIAP Genk (19.06–11.09.2021)
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“We urgently need books about our economic resources, about objects made by people, and about people that make objects,” in The biography of the object, Tretiakov pleads for a method of narrative construction that would resist the traditional ‘idealism of the novel.’ Instead of portraying the reality from a totalising perspective of an individual subject, the hero, he proposes to follow objects and their trajectories. 1 You may never know what’s causing all the traffic embraces this strategy on multiple levels—both in what it says and how it says it. 2 The artist, too, sides with the object, approaching it as a proxy for social relations and dynamics. She uses photography and installation as a vehicle to tell a story from multiple, non-aligning perspectives...
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