The group exhibition utters excess in between, drew on the linguistically intangible; that which resists legibility and cannot be uttered in language or explicitly understood through its canonical syntaxes. The unintelligible, the one which remains in between speech formulations, which escapes words or rational meanings, is used as a metaphor. The works presented in the show, aimed to legitimise what is in excess of language; undeciphered cries, unfiltered screams, human and non-human idiolects. They drew on voices unheard, silenced, or not yet documented, to speak about a subverted archive of desires, memories, senses and affects.
The show utters excess in between, strove to stay with identical or collective ruptures, agonies, and traumas, with narratives unfolded otherwise. The artists exhibited, were thinking through suppressed histories, socio-political frameworks and economic patterns, whilst forming links and resonances between them. From the dispersed installative gestures of Falke Pisano to the subtle filmic thesis and sculptures of Janis Rafa, the show sought to traverse canonical rhythms, times and spaces. Accordingly, from Rana Hamadeh’s practice drawing on “that which subsists within the documental voice, both because and in spite of that voice,” to Christian Nyampeta’s film as an ongoing enquiry into ways of living together, the exhibition functioned as a means of rearranging hierarchical structures. Through capturing aspects of the quotidian, Marina Xenofontos’ intervention on Christophoros Kyriakides archive, Yorgos Prinos’ large-scale photographs and Mehraneh Atashi’s textiles remapped scenes, activities and feelings uncanny.
How can the exhibition operate as a methodology where unruly and disorderly visions come together as justified forms of being? How could the works be potentially felt, touched as metaphors, as fluid movements towards alternation? Acts of production and exchange, fictional and diaristic experiences, construct a visual vocabulary that questions the universality of governing ways of living. utters excess in between, lingers over the incalculable, the occult, the mythical but also the subjective in an attempt to confront the politics of total legibility.
*The exhibition was accompanied by a series of public acts.
OPENING: Friday 28th February, 2020
ON VIEW: 28th February — 11th June, 2020
OPENING DAYS & HOURS: Wednesday-Friday: 16.30-20.30, Saturday: 12.00-17.00
