Charles E. Filion

Curatorial research / Writing / Education

Based in Georgia. Previously lived and worked across several countries including Canada and France.

chrlemf@gmail.com
+995 598919570

Research interests:

• contemporary conceptual practices

• post-Soviet artistic thought

• institutional critique

• displacement, repetition and legitimacy

• hybrid forms between text, archive and installation

I am interested in curatorial forms that emerge before institutional recognition: notes, failed entries, correspondence, translations, fragmented archives, secondary gestures and unstable symbolic structures.

My work develops outside traditional institutional frameworks and alongside transnational teaching activity, independent writing and long-term conceptual research.

This website functions as an evolving platform for ongoing curatorial inquiry rather than as a portfolio of completed institutional projects.

Current research

SECONDAIRE is an ongoing conceptual exhibition project exploring originality as a temporal and symbolic condition rather than as an isolated act of invention.

The project examines how repetition, recurrence, displacement and institutional visibility participate in the production of artistic legitimacy within contemporary conditions of cultural overproduction and fragmented attention.

Developed through spatial, temporal and procedural forms, SECONDAIRE approaches secondarity not as deficiency, but as a structural condition of contemporary symbolic production.

Current research explores relations between attention, duration, circulation, authorship and exhibition temporality through conceptual and post-conceptual curatorial strategies.

Research references include institutional critique, post-Soviet conceptual thought, economies of attention and non-linear exhibition structures.

Selected Writings

Secondary legitimacy: notes after Moscow conceptual strategies
Short reflection on delayed recognition, institutional framing and symbolic recurrence in post-Soviet conceptual thought.

On curating outside institutions
Notes on displacement, peripheral legitimacy and independent curatorial structures.

Attention as material
Fragments on temporality, spectatorship and symbolic economies within exhibition systems.