The Thing Itself Exists Everywhere
The exhibition is premised on the post-colonial theorist Homi K. Bhabha鈥檚 theory of the Third Space. The Third Space is a place of hybridity that displaces the histories that constitute it. Its intervention makes the structure of meaning and references an ambivalent process.
Drawing from this theory as a focus of study, the exhibition seeks to challenge systems of categorizations that place things into 鈥榞roups鈥� 鈥攚hether it is geographically (Global North vs Global South), methods and mediums (painting vs photography), processes (abstraction vs figuration) or politically (Left vs Right). The thing itself exists everywhere points to the ways in which various artistic practices 鈥榩ush-to-and-pull-from鈥� each other, towards greater difference and greater similarity. What might at first seem like an attempt to flatten difference is, in fact, an endeavour to harvest difference 鈥攅ncounters of difference are seen as intersections and meeting zones.
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The exhibition is premised on the post-colonial theorist Homi K. Bhabha鈥檚 theory of the Third Space. The Third Space is a place of hybridity that displaces the histories that constitute it. Its intervention makes the structure of meaning and references an ambivalent process.
Drawing from this theory as a focus of study, the exhibition seeks to challenge systems of categorizations that place things into 鈥榞roups鈥� 鈥攚hether it is geographically (Global North vs Global South), methods and mediums (painting vs photography), processes (abstraction vs figuration) or politically (Left vs Right). The thing itself exists everywhere points to the ways in which various artistic practices 鈥榩ush-to-and-pull-from鈥� each other, towards greater difference and greater similarity. What might at first seem like an attempt to flatten difference is, in fact, an endeavour to harvest difference 鈥攅ncounters of difference are seen as intersections and meeting zones.
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