Curators: Piotr Sikora and Blanca Soto

 

“They don't know why, but they keep doing it” is the motto of the exhibition offered by the “Zmiana Organizacji Ruchu” Foundation en  collaboration with Waterside Contemporary, London, the Blanca Gallery Soto, in Madrid and the LETO Gallery. Through this exhibition, eight artists from Poland, Great Britain and Spain present their works, which contemplate the role of ideology in the intellectual landscape of post-ideological news.

 

Ideology structures and simplifies reality, giving us a biased perspective that reduces our thinking to schematic notions. The artists, aware of the functioning of these mechanisms, overcome the ideological bias, seeking an adequate perspective for the critique of ideologies. Drawing on a wide repertoire of means of artistic expression, they delve into the uncertain terrain of post-critical and post-participatory art.

 

His artistic narration, although inspired by the "here and now", overcomes the barriers of a specific cultural or national context. The combination of baroque-trash icons, by Radek Szlaga; the post-apocalyptic garden furniture by Grzegorz Drozd or the Marx brand fashion collection, by PSJM, encourage the viewer to go beyond the limits of the local context and discover the subconscious reality of the universal artistic gesture. 

 

The results of this artistic search are very varied, from works with strongly critical overtones to formal experiments with a more aesthetic vocation. Their joint presentation becomes an initiative to offer an alternative to a reality dominated by decadent ideologies and systems. Because there must necessarily be an alternative, despite the fact that –quoting Žižek– imagining it is even more difficult than imagining the end of the world.

 

This project has been carried out within the framework of the Cultural Program of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU and co-financed with funds from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.