| This exhibition intends
to examine the dialectical relationship of space and subjectivity.
The show features work that oscillates between visualizing particular
regions inflected by specific cultural signifiers and imagining
more anonymous zones of the “smooth world” (Hardt, Negri)
that globalism propagates. Psychology, politics, tastes, fears,
ideals and desires are articulated through space, as a kind of portraiture
of place inflected by cultural legibility and contradiction. This
exhibition attempts to investigate the interface between space and
subjectivity that can either be named, identified, categorized or
remains indeterminate.
From the global to the transnational, this exhibition speaks to
the anxiety instigated by the conflicts between homogenization and
difference in the constitution of identity. It reflects the expediency
and the threat of fluid inscriptions of space and subjectivity,
both concretely and metaphorically, at stake in the larger negotiation
of local and global inflection and identification. From concrete
cityscapes to abstract non-places, one cannot remove politic from
site. While some artistic mediations focus on geographical specificity,
other propose a kind of vague terrain, a flattened homogenizing
view of international metropoles or suburbs, reiterating the redundancy
and interchangeability of the global city or periphery. This exhibit
proposes to investigate the relation of discourse to the real through
artworks that question the forces of de-differentiation and pluralism
attributed to contemporary postindustrial “world” culture.
It is interested in geography as it is visually constructed according
to a set of codes that determine location, and by extension, culture.
This concern is investigated through a focus on landscape, architectural
and spatial photography as portraiture and by exercising a grounding
of identity in place.
Artists:
Lucas Ajemian
Wen Feng
Jonah Freeman
Francis Gomila
Atelier Morales
Zwelethu
Mthethwa
Orit Raff
Daniela Rossell
Bharat Sikka
Alex Slade
Anton
Vidokle and Cristian Manzutto
Sharon Ya'ari
Veronicka
Zapletalova
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