What goes on | Clémentine Adou, Kevin Jerome Everson, Hemansingh Lutchmun | Kunstverein Freiburg (art society Freiburg)

Every year at Christmas, two traditional luxury department stores in Paris try to outdo each other with spectacular window displays. They create lavishly staged scenes with animated puppets that allow us to watch capitalism dream. On a sugar cane plantation in Mauritius, workers tend a sprawling garden surrounding a 19th century colonial mansion. Still family-owned today, the estate is now a popular tourist attraction. At an air force base in Columbus, Mississippi, a young pilot undergoes a test of vertigo. He performs various exercises while his body spins in circles, first slowly, then faster.

Terms such as disruption, crisis or catastrophe are used to describe the present as a time of upheaval. In the face of deep cuts, however, continuities that shape everyday experiences, through which institutions, social structures and power relations are stabilized and reproduced, can be lost from view. The exhibition What goes on looks at continuities - at routines, work processes, habits and rituals. They are embedded in social orders, which are also reflected in visual relationships: How are supposedly uninvolved viewers entangled in violent continuities?