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During the time the exhibition “Formless: A User’s Guide” was in its planning stage at the Centre Georges Pompidou, a potentially competing project was announced by another Parisian institution under the title “From the Informe to the Abject,” a title that clearly stated a belief that if the informe has a destiny that reaches beyond its conceptualization in the 1920s to find its fulfillment and completion within contemporary artistic production, this is in the domain of what is now understood as “abjection.”
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“Informe” without Conclusion (1996), by Rosalind Krauss