EXHIBITION

PERSONAL STRUCTURES - Crossing Borders

56th Venice Biennale 2015, Veneto, Venice, 05/09/2015 - 09/22/2015

Palazzo Bembo

ABOUT

What are the basic causes of terrorism, disputes, environmental threats, identity crisis, and the social issues of the underprivileged that are flooding the mass media on a daily basis? The reason may lie in the logic of force and the trauma brought on by the system's violence. Modern society is like a runaway train, carrying individual, communal, and societal trauma, ready to derail at any moment from its system of tracks.

Trauma stricken individuals and communities have sought two kinds of relief: (1) resistance to the system, and (2) the duplication and reproduction of images. Consequently, we find ourselves caught in our own trap – a system created by an absence or a lack of desire. We have become wanderers bereft of truth, surrounded by light that project a myriad of mirages manifested by our constant endeavor to comfort the inner self.

Indeed, will protesting in droves against the system relieve the symptoms of our trauma?

We arrive at the conclusion that in order to completely rid ourselves of anxiety and the sting of trauma, our self must be put to death; however, we feel powerless in the face of a trauma. What is needed for humans who wander around the surroundings, unable to endure the hardships of trauma? 

It is the truth.

Truth gives us the power to confront.

This is the artist’s journey into wholeness, free from the false light of illusion so deeply embedded in our human experience.

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