The young artists actively engage in these changes and shape a new language and aesthetic categories. They ask about the condition of the individual and the essence of visual representation: the way we perceive and express ourselves through images in an era of aggressive self-promotion and economy of attention. In a way, it can be seen a reaction to today’s imperative for creative participation in public life, symbolised by the figure of a prosumer – a spectator and an amateur creator of culture at the same time. Developed capitalism favours not only solid hardware but, more importantly, inventive software, with its promise of personal fulfilment and successful conveying of one's own personality and brand.
Private Settings is also an attempt to shed light on the language of contemporary visual culture – from idealised stock photographs and homogeneous corporate conventions, to the chill of the digital abyss and the aesthetics of amateur Internet practice, which questions the cult of the professional artist and traditional ways in which art functions in society.
Exhibiting artists: Sarah Abu Abdallah and Joey L. DeFrancesco, Korakrit Arunonandchai, Ed Atkins, Trisha Baga and Jessie Stead, Darja Bajagic, Nicolas Ceccaldi, Jennifer Chan, CUSS Group, Czosnek Studio, Jesse Darling, DIS, Harm van den Dorpel, Loretta Fahrenholz, Daniel Keller, Ada Karczmarczyk, Jason Loebs, Piotr Łakomy, Metahaven, Takeshi Murata, Yuri Pattison, Hannah Perry, Jon Rafman, Bunny Rogers, Pamela Rosenkranz, Ryan Trecartin, Ned Vena.
Opening at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw on September 25th, 2014, and will be on show till January 6th, 2015.
Source: Artmuseum.pl
Editor: MJ 25/09/2014