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Illusion of security
curated by Lino Baldini and Gyonata Bonvicini
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In light of recent events, there has been a lot of talk about security,
particularly the holes in it. Now the myth of the invulnerability
of American soil has been shattered and we have discovered how close
is the ‘alien’ dimension that can challenge us. With the
fall of this illusion of security, the new figure of an ‘invisible
enemy’ appears; an enemy that apparently can be confronted only
through a state of permanent war.
Some critics believe that the breach of security that happened in
September 2001 illustrates how Western countries have been operating
under a ‘deterrent signs’ security system — that
the governments’ current method for showing how they have beefed
up security is to display yet more security. But is it really making
us safer? Or is it just a cosmetic enhancement to make us feel safer?
Is more security necessarily better security? That is, are twenty
scarecrows really better than one? One must number insecurity as an
essential feature of freedom, nailing the lie of a choice between
security and risk. In fact the choice is just between different conditions
of risk, or between alternatives where risks have different dimensions
and values. Therefore the persistence of a culture of insecurity is
highly dangerous, since it threatens both freedom and the ability
to innovate. That is the common denominator binding every single selected
work in this exhibition, an attempt to get into focus the questions
of insecurity culture raised by the fluid and interdisciplinary interactions
between these works.
Artists:
Bureau d'Etudes
Tamara Khundadze
Eredi Brancusi
Yael Bartana
Olivier Pietsch
Marina Fulgeri
Phillip Zaiser
Stefan Banz
Y Liver
Lola Marazuela
Valentina Favi &
Saverio Pieralli
Giovanna Di Costa
Lucia Uni
Zhang Qi-Kai
Christian Frosi
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