Artists: Jumanna Manna, Ayman Al Azraq, Omar Mismar, Lara Tabet, Anna Luna Lopez, Nadia Barkate, Jon Otamendi, Dages Juvelier Keates, Emmanuel Svedin, Elizabeth Tubergen.
L’Intrus takes French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy’s eponymous essay as a point of departure. Nancy metaphorically renders the one who is intruding, the stranger, as a transplanted heart. Nancy’s body needs a stranger, but it is also always in danger of rejecting that stranger and, as a consequence, of dying. The implication of Nancy’s text is this: not only is the stranger already of the social body, the social body depends on their presence and on the fact of their difference. L’Intrus borrow this insight, and presents 13 international artists whose work represents the figure of the stranger as a relationship between the figure and its context.
Why think l’intrus as a relationship? Because it allows the viewer to see the stranger as something that is produced between the...inside and the outside of a body, a nation, an ethnic group, etc., rather than “strangeness” as something that belongs to some people and not others.
Europe is in the middle of a migrant crisis that is testing the limits of its universalism along with its ability to see humanity in all human beings. The exhibition responds to this condition of crisis with pictures of the stranger—artwork in many different media—that assume the psychological and ideological interdependence of human beings, especially of those whose difference from “ourselves” interferes with our lives.
Linked to the exhibition, from December 17-21 there will be a Curatorial Intensive Programme, conducted by Natasha Marie Llorens and Lotte Arndt. Form more information, pgaraikideak@tabakalera.eu.
Entrada actualizada el el 27 nov de 2018
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