“Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus that gave him no rest.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“(...) This is for you
The ones who know how powerful we are
Who know we can sound the music in the people around us
simply by playing our own strings (...)”
― Andrea Gibson, Say Yes
APPROXIMATING
___QUESTION ME & ANSWER. Group show
Adrian Hall Kranz, Animal Bro, Ava Binta Giallo, Chinara Majidova, Gleb Amankulov, June C. Yuwol, Klimentina Milenova, Marija Šabanović, Margarita Merkulova, Marthin Rozo, Monica C. LoCascio, Pille-Riin Jaik, Rychèl Thérin, Sara Ghalandari, Yi Jiang
___What happens when two or three strange people meet each other for one purpose? When two or three people from different countries meet in a foreign country? When foreign becomes familiar and -in between- starts to feel like home. Can sharing experiences of politically influenced upbringing help in defining one's identity? Can we build a new safe nest for us together? Are we limited by this realm? Can we finally stop trying to fit one’s perception and exceed the language? Is the Metaverse where we finally can try on our own skin, escape from unjust systems, forget the past, experience life without borders, communicate without violence, and just be together?
For the viewer, art might be about the experience of the approximate solutions with aesthetic value. Ergo, for artists it might be about assuming a version of reality of which they are attempting to calculate some visual version, it might also be observing and using reality or “simple” making sense of it. Art can give neural stimuli and cannot, all depends on the intent of the artist and the response of a viewer.
But what about two or three artists working together on something - an artwork that is unspecified or yet unknown? Most probably, it starts with the conversation: a simple ask-and-answer game. By exchanging ideas, stories, and news, they start coming closer, finding similarities and thus sharing meanings. It is then when we acknowledge each other, we empower too, we return to each other and we return to ourselves.
The heterogeneity of aesthetics here doesn’t appear in artworks by artists with different cultural backgrounds colliding in one space of a defined society or group. On the contrary, in the group exhibition Approximating the cultural reality conforms to hybridity - what existed in separate ways, combines to generate new structures, objects, and practices in which the preceding elements mix.
We came close and yet we never stop approximating. It feels nearly the same but it is not.
___Curated by Urtė Špeirokaitė, Guilherme Maggessi, Ale Zapata, Justina Špeirokaitė
___Opening evening
26.10 6 PM
___Curators tour
28.10 6 PM
___Exhibition duration
27 - 29.10
___Opening hours
Th, Fr 3 -7 PM
Sa 11 AM - 4 PM
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Supported by Stadt Wien
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Read the press release here.