“Empire of the Senseless” Exhibition
Friedman Benda
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Punk icon Kathy Acker begins with an “Elegy for the World of Our Fathers” in her pivotal 1988 novel Empire of the Senseless. And an elegy it is – a dark, grotesquely candid, screaming requiem to the romanticism of the patriarchy. In the world Acker fashions, a decaying earth is populated by anesthetized part-human, part-robots. Their brutal apathy, a product of the naked cruelty of civilization, becomes a type of freedom. It is here they find autonomy.
Friedman Benda announces Empire of the Senseless. Using Acker’s work as a jumping off point, Curator and Director Thorsten Albertz has invited six artists to use painting to reflect on their unique explorations of reality
The show encourages taking a moment of pause to view our current internet-age, machine-based, violence-infused culture and how it has affected one’s emotional output. Can we view one’s persona as a form of drag? What happens when different, conflicting symbols are combined? Where does the self exist in an era of the masses?
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Schedule
from February 26, 2015 to March 28, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-02-26 from 18:00 to 20:00