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WHAT POSSIBILITY IS THERE FOR AN AVANT GARDE?
26.09-09.30.2021
Erratum
Böckhstraße 40. 10967
Berlin, Germany
APOCATASTASIS
Apocatastasis explores the possibilities of the avant garde at the end of an era. The exhibition brings together photographs by Mikael Gregorsky and pieces from the A.F. Vandevorst archive to question what remains progressive or simply other when confronted with the abyssal nature of contemporary existence.
At the end, in the fin de siècle, what possibility is there for an avant garde? A temporal social construct, progressive or simply other, of a piece with the outside, at peace with the abyssal. Must one believe in grace, in angels, try to picture the monsters on the edge of thought, the eschatologies of a final form, or simply honour the promises of ruins and wreckage, of fallen monuments and the hopes in a dream? Are we all each angels of history, a great host out of heaven, each its own bubble of creation, forming a dirty foam frothing the surf? And that we, thus beset with great purpose, unique existence, and animated with some divine spark of destiny, are yet forever inconsequentially, irrelevantly alone? Fallen in incommensurable relativity, to solitude in society, that all we share is but soliloquy and our crippled souls lust mutely locked in an inane metaphysics of solipsism?
— Text by William Alderwick
Exhibition design: Thomas Bagnoli
Drinks by Brauhaus Neulich
Curated by Alessia Ansalone