10.03.2023
8.02.2023- 7.05.2023
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Creating fictions, inventing otherworldliness, dreaming and performing the speculative allow us to experience the world beyond the rules of logic. Suspension of Disbelief welcomes the improbable, the uncertain, and the unthinkable, creating a journey that draws back the human will to fantasy through the works of seven international artists. Each artist produces their own cosmologies, seducing the audience into worlds in which languages are volatile, times and identities fluid, humans co-exist equally with, and learn from other species.
Suspending disbelief involves self-awareness. It is the moment of poetic faith in which we know we are facing an illusion, yet we willingly surrender ourselves to it. A feeling similar to witnessing a magic trick, in which the rabbit vanishes inside the hat, just to reappear on the table a bit later; we indulge in aesthetic estrangement of the implausible, not because it escapes our logic, but because we desire it. The artists in the exhibition alter the reality we seem to know, and through that, offer us a possibility to temporarily experience the world and one’s own position in it, differently.
Enchanting in nature, the works operate as a transient place from which we can encounter imaginary perspectives that—if we are lucky—may impact our shared reality. In the universe that the exhibition creates geese can fly to the moon, ghosts traverse time and space to tell us their stories, we think like islands, visit extinct landscapes, and become part of technologies that are at the same time part of us. Yet the exhibition also tells us about the existing world; speculative narratives are also a means of critically examining and pointing to the bleakness of our society, the limitations of our mind’s constructions, and the necessity to open ourselves towards the yet unknown.
TANK Shanghai is a non-profit institution, a pioneering and multifunctional art center. Through contemporary art exhibitions and events, the public is invited to closely experience art, architecture, the city, nature, and the exceptional Huangpu river view.
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