The exhibition "There were times I wanted to change the world" starts from a curatorial research into the concept of the monstrous, the mirror as a metaphor for painting, and the idea of the simulacrum, found today in the different types of constructions, deconstructions, and reconstructions of the visual representation. As part of a collaborative effort initiated by Jecza Gallery, the exhibition brings together artists represented by the galleries Jecza, /SAC, Mobius, Sector 1, Suprainfinit, Himera and Lutnita.
"The idea of the monstrous as an expression of human-nonhuman hybridity spans the entire history of knowledge, from pre-Platonic philosophy and Hellenistic systems of understanding nature, or more precisely human nature, to current non-normative theories of radical alterity.
The deconstruction of the real, functioning as an artist's strategy to transform a perception or a fantasy into images, is a way of reaching the monstrous - that combination of incompatible elements.
One of the authors who dealt with the history of the monstrous from the ontological-political point of view, Filippo Del Lucchese, writes that one of the constant questions throughout the centuries of philosophical reflection is: does the order of the world emerge from chaos thus ending it, or is chaos the monstrous destiny of any so-called order? This question can guide us in the exhibition course proposed here, and the relationship between a search for compatibility with incompatible elements that get under our skin and transform us takes multiple incarnations, under the effect that the "body" of painting/art bears on us." Text by Diana Marincu
A collaborative effort initiated by Jecza Gallery, joined by /SAC, Mobius, Sector 1, Suprainfinit, Himera and Lutnita | at Paltim Timișoara
We warmly thank Paltim for generously offering the exhibition space.
