Something Is Burning
The group exhibition SOMETHING IS BURNING looks at aspects of identity construction in the context of economic and individual well-being. Tracing trajectories of visibility and representation over time, the exhibition aims to map different bodies 鈥撯 many of which have been subjected to processes of othering 鈥撯 and locates them in an intrinsically commodified space.
While some of the works deal with questions of performance and performativity, others address the frameworks as well as loopholes of regulated governed social structures. As we witness the global commercialisation of queerness, where privacy is transformed into a tradeable commodity, this group exhibition connects the body and its inhabited personas to the contemporary moment through various entry points. The exhibition further considers what it means to exhibit queerness and how such a loaded and widely used term could even manifest in the form of a static institutional exhibition.
The selection of the artworks is based on patterns and presumptions around various binary systems. In this regard, the works presented offer meeting and melting points.
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The group exhibition SOMETHING IS BURNING looks at aspects of identity construction in the context of economic and individual well-being. Tracing trajectories of visibility and representation over time, the exhibition aims to map different bodies 鈥撯 many of which have been subjected to processes of othering 鈥撯 and locates them in an intrinsically commodified space.
While some of the works deal with questions of performance and performativity, others address the frameworks as well as loopholes of regulated governed social structures. As we witness the global commercialisation of queerness, where privacy is transformed into a tradeable commodity, this group exhibition connects the body and its inhabited personas to the contemporary moment through various entry points. The exhibition further considers what it means to exhibit queerness and how such a loaded and widely used term could even manifest in the form of a static institutional exhibition.
The selection of the artworks is based on patterns and presumptions around various binary systems. In this regard, the works presented offer meeting and melting points.
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