GROUP EXHIBITION

The Millennium promised us an uncertain future. Today the social anxiety caused by the ‘Millennium Bug’, has returned in a real viral form. In those days we heard warnings, but also saw signs of imminent dystopia that have provedenduring. Global heating and the emergence of AI have become a stubborn presence. At the same time, advances intechnology and the various potential benefits derived from it have quietly moved along. Ease of high-speed transportation,gradual liberation from repetitive manual labor, and a dream of longevity through self-discipline have been on our mindsand have been fed by the catch phrases of multinational companies.

Exactly 20 years later, where are we? In some places we still cannot go out without a mask. We are getting used to various administrative orders that control our behavior, and freedom of movement between countries remains limited.The fear and uncertainty of a Pandemic in the hyper-connected society continues to expand and reproduce acrossborders. All this is complicated by the protests and new hopes that pervade the West.

This inevitably highlights the existence and function of art. When life as a reality, which seemed to be accelerating, was put under a state crisis and uncertainty, we began to reflect on our own existence as a finite beings. When the wheelof daily life halts, we begin to indulge in new things to fill the void, and in particular, a latent thirst for art and the desireto understand and reflect on its use.

Artists twist and reinterpret conventions and institutions, and want to endlessly deterritorialise in relation to systems. Artworks are the projections that visually or sensuously reflect artists inner desires, doubts and questions. We senseartists feelings through the way they embed their desires and questions in their work. We experience the illusions thatthey have conjured and the ideas that are layered in their art works. We can find new forms of rhizomic reflection byexperiencing an exhibition occupied by the works made by very different artists all drawn together by their uniqueperspectives upon unique existences.

A Little After The Millennium. This is a reflection upon over twenty years of art by artists who all emerged around the year 2000 and each of them offers a unique perspective on what art could have been and what it has become.In a time of crisis we might be able perceive a ‘real post-modernism—a creative collage of self-awareness—throughthe works of artists who have always been aware of the instability meaning yet continue to seek truth and beautythrough the fog of uncertainty.