Kader Attia

Breaking the internet, a broken political system, lives destroyed, dreams smashed: Media attention and cultural focus often gravitate toward the damaged; this French artist probes at concepts of repair. “Reason’s Oxymorons,” now on view at the Hood Downtown in Hanover, N.H., features an unexpectedly sanitary, corporatized environment to absorb Attia’s interviews with a variety of players. Eighteen monitors, each enshrined in an office cubicle, play interviews with philosophers, psychiatrists, cultural anthropologists, traditional healers, historians, musicologists, patients and immigrants speaking broadly on mending.