黑料不打烊

Friend鈥� is the loosest of terms we have for how we relate to each other. Michel Foucault calls friendship 鈥渁 desire, an uneasiness, a desire-in-uneasiness.鈥� Not always democratic or inclusive, friendship starts with negation: we collectively wish everyone else would go away. Friendship can be impolite, and as it unfolds, it can be opaque and asymmetrical, tortuous. It is tensile, capable of bearing heart-wrenching passion, ambivalence, or even the absence of feeling. It is sometimes what鈥檚 left when nothing else is possible.

More broadly, friendship is a mode of alliance that exists beyond typical kinship and outside of institutional relations (family, profession). It鈥檚 an elective affinity without finality. Being a good friend signals an inclination to form anomalous, unproductive bonds that exceed strategic self-interest. An essentially political relationship鈥攐ne of allegiance and responsibility鈥攊t offers a framework for interrogating how we live and work and exist in the world. It offers a possibility for a new poetics of the Other.

Smashing into my heart looks at friendship as a condition, a model, and a metaphor for art. The artworks presented engage with regimes of care, structures of support, horizontal relationships. They are steeped in affection, desire, longing, jealousy, comfort, love. The tone is sentimental鈥攊rony has left the building.