黑料不打烊

This exhibition examines the sense of normalcy that everyday offers. While each day is seemingly a regular occurrence,  Baliga exposes and highlights dissonances that are overlooked or ignored. Viewers are invited to pay attention to details that have been missed from the day-to-day framing of images of importance 鈥� of violence, pain, loss, and love. Nothing is being claimed or stated.   

Baliga engages with and challenges frameworks that govern visuality in general, as well as the specific images he works with. He states 鈥淚 had been working with the idea of the normal, dealing with what it takes to be normal? Is normal the adjective of norm? Does it mean conformity with the norm and does normalisation mean to make/make to seem normal? Flexible normality in its varied senses exist in my work, in thinking and making art.鈥�

When singular things or events begin to occur regularly, they are rendered normal.  When people overlook strangeness it鈥檚 normal. Sometimes things are simply normalised to suit institutions of power. News clippings from the side-lines and margins may enter the frames. Acknowledged as normal, these images can be allotted small spaces within the mediatic space. The normality of everyday gets lost in the articulation of larger discourses of politics.