Memories of the future. The exhibition as semiosphere and its anachronic temporalities

The paper focuses on a phenomenon that has recently come to the fore in exhibition strategies, namely the anachronic montages in which a constellation of contemporary and past works replace the chronological progression or coherence. The article will turn to the museum hall and the exhibition space as paradigmatic examples to illustrate the functioning of the cultural dynamic and its plural temporalities according to Jurij Lotman. It will the focus on how Hubert Damisch took up the question of the anachronic temporalities of the display in the exhibition project he curated at the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam in 1997 under the title Moves: Playing Chess and Cards with the Museum, which gave rise to a theoretical reflection on the relationship between plural temporalities and mobility in the display.