Poetics & politics of maintenance:
Show me you are not the light I called to, but the darkness behind it.
With: Jack O’Brien, Estéfana Román Matesanz and Will Sheridan Jr
Opening : June 28th, [removed];
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The exhibition continues throughout
September 6th.
fluent is pleased to present Poetics & politics of maintenance: Show me you are not the light I called to, but the darkness behind it, a group exhibition featuring works by Jack O’Brien, Estéfana Román Matesanz and Will Sheridan [removed];
The undertitle of this exhibition takes its name from a verse in Rose, a poem by Louise Glück in which belonging and identity struggle at light, longing for a darker, freer regime. Maintenance has often been seen as this darker, back–staged dimension where the conditions for life to take place, are proccured. This exhibition dismantles such distinction, one that cuts across light and darkness, focusing on maintenance as a site that calls for time, dedication, closeness and attention, in which organic and inorganic bodies establish an intimate [removed];
All the works in Poetics & politics of maintenance emerge from this field of structural sensuality: tightness, overlaps, cuts and frictions do not operate as inert services —as in the social language of usership and consumerism—, but as a complex set of affinities: this of moving and being [removed];
Poetics & politics of maintenance is dedicated to the memory of radical theorist Marina Vishmidt (1976–2024).
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