"Subtle Anxiety: This Is How You Feel Now" Exhibition
Doosan Gallery
This event has ended.
In psychoanalytic terms, anxiety is characterized as an unpleasant feeling, typically accompanied by uneasiness, nervousness, fear or worry. Feelings of anxiety are generated from witnessing overwhelming visual images of an accident, such as an automobile crash, a disastrous event like the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a war, a natural disaster, or even from watching a series of TV commercials that constantly lure us into unnecessary urges to buy. Therefore, anxiety has become a rather generalized mood or condition, which reflects the present society; it seems to be a somewhat subtle phenomenon and it is hard to detect the specific reasons that actually cause it. This exhibition captures the invisible anxiety in our current culture and transforms it into visual languages through a variety of media including painting, photography, video and site-specific installation.
Ironically, this anxiety motivates and accelerates artists to create imagery, and its outcome gives the viewer a great illusion of how we feel; it might also be a visual representation of what we have been facing. The artists presented in this exhibition share the common denominator of existential anxiety, which brings about obsessive behavior, panic, fear, boredom, and emptiness.
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Schedule
from July 15, 2010 to August 14, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-07-15 from 18:00 to 20:00