A Perfect Society
Purity, of race, of religion, of conduct, and indeed of thought, have been at the heart of mankind鈥檚 repeated attempts to create a perfect society. A perfect society which both keeps those on the inside pure, and those on the outside, well鈥utside.
Powerful leaders, and their followers who give them the power, seek this purity, this perfection. They do so by building walls that keep heterogeneity out, and by ensuring homogeneity inside. The leader and followers feed off of each other, building not only physical walls, but metaphorical ones through circular references, through immersive echo chambers, so loud and so sound-proof, that for those on the inside, the outside ceases to exist.
The artists in Aicon Contemporary鈥檚 exhibition 鈥淎 perfect society鈥� challenge the notion of a perfect society and the purity it harkens for. Through their brashness of thought and art making, they force the echo chamber inhabitants to acknowledge the world outside.
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Purity, of race, of religion, of conduct, and indeed of thought, have been at the heart of mankind鈥檚 repeated attempts to create a perfect society. A perfect society which both keeps those on the inside pure, and those on the outside, well鈥utside.
Powerful leaders, and their followers who give them the power, seek this purity, this perfection. They do so by building walls that keep heterogeneity out, and by ensuring homogeneity inside. The leader and followers feed off of each other, building not only physical walls, but metaphorical ones through circular references, through immersive echo chambers, so loud and so sound-proof, that for those on the inside, the outside ceases to exist.
The artists in Aicon Contemporary鈥檚 exhibition 鈥淎 perfect society鈥� challenge the notion of a perfect society and the purity it harkens for. Through their brashness of thought and art making, they force the echo chamber inhabitants to acknowledge the world outside.
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