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Afterbirth of
a DreamGalerie
Meetfactory, Praha 10. 6. – 5.
9. 2017 (opening on June 10 at 7pm)artists: Jan
Brož, Leon Eisermann, Zsófia Keresztes, Estrid Lutz & Emile Mold, Carl
Palm, Anna Slama & Marek Delong, Pavel Stereccurators:
Christina Gigliotti & Jan Zálešák
Afterbirth of a Dream is a stand-alone sequel to two
projects curated by Jan Zálešák, Apocalypse
Me (Galerie Emila Filly, Ústí nad Labem, 2016) and Letting Go (Trafó Gallery, Budapest, 2017). The themes in these
exhibition projects included the crisis of humanity; re-formulating the
relationships between the worlds of humans and non-humans; thinking about a
future that would not be contaminated by human subjectivity, or the non-human
thinking of the future – are further developed in the Afterbirth of a Dream exhibition in curatorial collaboration with
Christina Gigliotti, an American curator active for several years on the Prague
scene. With her major contribution, the selection of artists represented at the
Letting Go exhibition (Jan Brož,
Zsófia Keresztes, Anna Slama & Marek Delong, Pavel Sterec) has been
extended by other prominent personalities from the emerging generation of
contemporary European art (Leon Eisermann, Estrid Lutz & Emile Mold, Carl
Palm).
With new names, or new
authorial positions and poetics, and with a shift to a dialogic way of forming
a curatorial narrative, new themes have come to the fore, while the others,
mentioned above, have gone through revisions. The common leitmotif of the
informal trilogy remains focused on the frontier regions of the human world –
areas where borders between realms of the human and inhuman are dissolved. This
subject is not new in itself; it is rather an ever-renewed path towards what is
being displaced from our lives that are subject to the inexorable
"non-ideological" logic of everyday life. Seen from this perspective,
Afterbirth of a Dream can be put into
the development line of modern art that attempted to move away from the sphere
of "normality", from this supreme domain of a modern, rational
entity. One of the key mechanisms for shaping modern subjectivity was the
cultivated experience with the linear text. Our present subjectivity, on the
other hand, is shaped by a delirical experience with the constantly rearranged
and transforming content of the Net, floating as a ghostly representation over
the not well-kept facade of "reality," beyond which, in fact, nothing
is at it seems. Under the surface of human bodies there is a symbiotic
multispecies universe, beneath the displays of smart devices machinic
assemblages of human and inhuman, below the surface of consciousness there are
nebula of dreams and affections, ready to explode at any time and then absorb
everything like a black hole...Many of the authors
represented in the exhibition focus on site-specific installation and
sculptural objects or collages in their current work. Zsófia Keresztes will
introduce a new work in which she further develops her poetics of "new new
figuration", where the motivation of the human figure is replaced by
posthumanist perspectives. One could describe the works of Estrid Lutz and
Emile Mold in a similar way, except that in their assemblages, rather than
"anonymous materials", there are elements clearly belonging to the
world of technology and violence, undergoing the techno-animistic
transformation in the course of the creative process. The deflection of objects
from production and distribution trajectories governed by capitalist pragmatics
is also characteristic of Carl Palm's oeuvre. Working with certain liquid or
maleable materials, he gives gallery spaces and objects more fluidity by
obscuring or covering their original forms. As such these objects stop being
readily available, yet they bring our attention to focus on other,
non-utilitarian qualities. Anna Slama and Mark Delong are preparing a new
installation confirming their current interest in the emotional appeal of the
artifact and deepening their controversy with the cultural dominance of the
dematerialized flow of virtual images. The interest in affections and emotions,
spontaneity associated with the discovery of a world that is in direct
experience always a bit different from what the "adults" tell us, is
characteristic of works by Leon Eisermann who will contribute to the exhibition
not only with his objects but also with drawings and paintings. That a greater
degree of knowledge does not necessarily have to lead to the
"enlightenment" of the world and disguising everything in it as a
clear structure, is an important message of Pavel Sterec's video called Syndicates of Life. As one of the few
works, the Syndicates in the process
of preparing the exhibition are already a finished work, which will be
re-installed in another context with a new reading. The same can be said of the
contribution of Jan Brož, based on the principle already tried in the Trafó
Gallery – for the Afterbirth of a Dream
exhibition, however, the author will develop an existing series of digital
prints on transparent films with new motifs corresponding to the overall shift
in the thematic focus of the exhibition.
Artists’ Portfolios and CVs online:Jan
Brož http://parallelpractice.tumblr.com/
Leon
Eisermann http://gillmeierrech.com/index.php/leon-eisermann/
Zsófia
Keresztes http://zsofiakeresztes.com/
Estrid
Lutz & Emile Mold https://estridlutzemilemold.com/
Carl
Palm http://www.carlpalm.com/
Anna
Slama & Marek Delong http://annaslama.comhttp://www.marekdelong.com
Pavel
Sterec http://pavelsterec.org/
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