"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue" Exhibition

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LMAKprojects presents "Disobedience," curated by Tevz Logar. This exhibit takes a look at history: its translations, its truths and its re-interpretation. Every individual inevitably leaves traces in space and time. Sometimes the traces are innocent, and dissipate with time - usually the victorious determines what remains.

More then twenty years ago, since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the discourse on the ambivalence of 'official' history has begun to intensify, revising and juxtaposing events taking place on both the East and West sides of the wall. The premise, however, always seems the same as the East is relayed as the one trying to catch up to its sibling, the West- desperately trying to present itself as an equal partner and counterpart, but remains nearly always dismissed as a shear valiant effort, even in the face of a sweeping globalization and elimination of borders. Though borders may be erased from maps, the Berlin walls still reign in our minds.

"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue" presents an alternative approach to historical narrative. It may seem that the exhibition flirts with the post-modern rejection of one 'official' history, but rather it reviews and reviews the reality of the past - questioning but also offering an alternate perception. The exhibit gives a voice to the excluded and the deliberate elimination of events and individuals drawing attention to the problematic and anachronistic method of documenting history and offering a more organic manner for documentation.

[Image: Agnieszka Polska "Sensitization to Colour" (2009) DVD Sound and Black and White 5 min. 2 sec.]

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from June 27, 2010 to August 01, 2010

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