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A Visionary Tale
Introduction
Last and Universal: the Semantics of Judgment
Thought Through Images
Seduced by Freedom of Thought
Art in the Age of Short-Term Memory
A Call to Artists and Audience
Seventeen Modern Tales
A Call to Artists and Audience continued
This show sets out to
reflect on the threat posed by the processes of justice, the agonizing wait
for it, and the consequences of the course of justice. The works explore emotional
and visceral aspects of judgment – seclusion, isolation and victimization
on the one hand, and self-righteousness on the other.
In particular, the exhibition is designed to provoke discussion of the problematic
relationship between the collective and the individual, which are symbiotically
bound in a social contract. This relationship guarantees survival to the individual,
who joins the community and assimilates into its collective body. The community,
in turn, establishes control over the individual in order to prosper. It defines
freedom and becomes an implacable jury: it sentences to seclusion those individuals
who may represent real or hypothetical danger to its stability or interests.
It’s the intention of The Last Judgment Project to encourage viewers
to address issues of equality and freedom, and to challenge the public regarding
the very principles that underlie equality.
In a re-contextualized
Last Judgment, the resurrection of the body becomes an allegory through which
to reflect on the status of the human and post-human body in contemporary
culture. The body is understood as a symbol of both achievement and manipulation:
from the biological to the bionic, from the physiological to the artificial,
from the natural to the functional, from the emotional to the automatic.
As a direct object of justice, judgment and prejudice, the body is humiliated,
isolated, secluded, destroyed or annihilated. It is a vehicle of diseases
and ideas and a symbol of ideals and promises. The body is then a physical
target, and yet the last expression of resistance, dignity and freedom.
The Last Judgment Project aims to create both a visual and emotional experience for the spectator. The show confronts viewers with the duality of human nature, and thereby goads them to examine their own faculties of (self)judgment. The viewer abandons the role of passive spectator and becomes part of the project itself -- an active critic and critical actor in the creative process of art.
