Life constantly escapes: An Exhibition Exploring Modernity's Critique and Alternative Futures

This exhibition explores the socio-ecological catastrophe of the capitalist modern age and critiques its extractive relationship with the world. It focuses on theories and voices from the Black Radical Tradition, queer, feminist, and indigenous perspectives that challenge modern logic and envision an alternative future beyond its limitations.

The exhibition 'Life constantly escapes' confronts the ongoing socio-ecological catastrophe inherent in the capitalist modern age, which fundamentally separates humans from the material world and establishes an extractive, value-based relationship. Drawing on critical voices from the Black Radical Tradition, as well as queer, feminist, and indigenous perspectives, the exhibition interrogates the violent, dividing logic of modernity. It highlights concepts like 'blackness,' as discussed by theorists such as Fred Moten, Saidiya Hartman, and Denise Ferreira da Silva, which represent a social power that predates, opposes, and surpasses modernity. The exhibition delves into Ferreira da Silva's question: what happens when contemporary art focuses on the 'hereafter' of modernity, moving beyond dominant concepts of the world, humans, or subjectivity? It celebrates what thrives beneath modernity's constraints, what exists beyond its borders, and what escapes its attacks out of necessity, thereby opening different worlds. Visitors can expect an experience where alternatives blossom, manifesting as a party, a garden, or a dance, and where the boundaries between subjects and objects blur, leading to a shared materiality and the emergence of a broken beauty.

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