Taiteilijaosuuskunta Toolbox: Wounds
The title of the group exhibition, ‘Wounds’, fit into the larger discourse of vulnerability, which today is perhaps of greater significance than ever before
The title of the group exhibition, ‘Wounds’, fit into the larger discourse of vulnerability, which today is perhaps of greater significance than ever before in the modern Western world, given the wars in Ukraine and Israel and the experiences of the Corona pandemic.
Finding oneself vulnerable, the awareness of the possibility of suffering, is always a topos characterised by great ambivalence, in some ways it is even paradoxical.
On the one hand, there is the phenomenon of the strange disproportionality of actual personal safety: the relation between how many people in a society actually become victims of violent assaults on the one hand and the personal sense of safety on the other, which is widespread in the Western world, here, with regard to the participating artists in Northern and Central Europe, Finland and Berlin in particular: the safer people are, the greater the perceived insecurity – vulnerability – seems to become.
Furthermore, vulnerability is a topos in art, being an artist is associated with a special vulnerability, namely as a special openness that also entails the willingness to be hurt. Openness, not least towards one’s own feelings, allowing and recognising pain is supposed to be a prerequisite for creating art.
Yö Galleria
27.7.-18.8.2024
Tue-Fri 14.00-19.00
Sat.Sun 12.00-17.00
Free entry
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