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On occasion of the artist’s first solo exhibition at the Galleria Continua in Beijing, the works are conceived as a sensory and perceptive experience.
The show opens with a small finite universe: a sphere of repaired mirrors that creates a world of infinite possibilities. Here, wounds are constantly trying to repair themselves, giving the idea of Repair as part of the Continuum of the Human Being. Just as the universe is a concept that automatically repairs itself and joins in every new form, so revolutions and chaos are a continuum of its internal order.
Artificial Nature photo galleriacontinua.com
The title of the exhibition “Beginning of the World” has been chosen ironically.
In the main space, a large group of museum showcases has been destroyed and robbed, leaving an aura of mystery and sadness. Anxiety for what has been lost, chaos between origin and end. The Beginning of the World is, metaphorically, the end of it, the beginning of all problems that actually could lead the world to its end.
The concept behind this show arises from a long period of in-depth research, during which Kader Attia widely investigated the different meanings linked to the binomial: repair and “re-appropriation”.
We Want to Be Modern
photo galleriacontinua.com
This political idea of ‘beginning’ has a tight link with the “revolutionary dream”, which could be seen also as a de- evolution, in the way that people still believe that everything could be changed in order to create a better world to live in, although political order in the society is actually against this.
chaos + repair = universe
photo galleriacontinua.com
The exhibition reflects on the human activity of “repairing”, whereas everything we do leads us to a natural attitude that makes us struggle to survive. This behaviour is the dream of modernity, and riots have always been motivated by this utopian revolutionary idea to improve the world through change.
Arab Spring
photo galleriacontinua.com
Arab Spring
photo galleriacontinua.com
KADER ATTIA
BEGINNING OF THE WORLD
GALLERIA CONTINUA / BEIJING 10th May – 24th Aug, 2014
via galleriacontinua.com
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