Gabriel Lester
Suspension of Disbelief
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL
12 Feb – 8 May 2011
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The opening of the exhibition by Gabriel Lester at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen was at 8:00 p.m. on Friday, 11 February. The Suspension of Disbelief presentation was Lester’s first major solo exhibition in a museum setting.
From Saturday, 12 February 2011, the public could also experience this magical exhibition, which runs for almost three months. Lester has specially created an immersive total installation composed of a dozen or so new and earlier works that explore concepts such as fortune and misfortune, expectations, superstition, rituals, magical beliefs, prophecies and, most especially, destiny and fate. Fate and magical beliefs play a pivotal role in Suspension of Disbelief.
This exhibition seemed to suggest that the attribution of value to non-existent connections is one of the means of surviving in an unpredictable world. Lester’s installations and films presente various examples of people trying to fathom out fate.