/SAC

Saturday, May 24th, as part of DOIJOI, the exhibition „Notes from Underground” can be visited at /SAC @ MALMAISON (Calea Plevnei 137C) from 10AM to 1PM. „Beneath the surface of order lies an undercurrent of instability. Civilization is a performance, a fragile construct upheld by shared illusion, habit, and necessity. Yet, just underneath its polished exterior, another world pulses, one of raw instinct, disillusionment, and subversion. Titled after Dostoyevsky’s „Notes from Underground”, this exhibition seeks to unravel the tensions between the civilized self and its buried counterpart, between societal constraints and the primal forces they attempt to suppress.” (Charles Moore) „Notes from Underground is a subjective and collective exploration about our actual reactions (including the entire range of emotions and thoughts, and their respective externalizations) and what we, as individuals, can do in-front-and-in-the-middle of this increasingly troubling period, when democracies and (common) values are being de/re-constructed/defined. What we, as actors on the artworld's stages (artists, curators etc.), can do with our relative “power of changing the world through art”, without letting it become propaganda. Can art (and the exhibition) become an instrument for fighting against manipulation and populist propaganda? A vaccine? An antidote? For whom?” (Alex Radu)