The Red Line

Authors’ Comment

RED THREAD
(vertical – horizontal – vertical)

What divides us?
What (still) holds us together?
What (still) keeps us in the same place?

A series of three exhibitions linked by a common theme. Not arranged horizontally (like a train of problems following one another), but stacked like receipts on a spike next to a cash register (or like queue tickets at a public service counter).
"Notes from Underground": a hybrid structure stitched together by the red thread that separates us—ever more visibly—into camps (into two camps), the result of a process of chronic polarization (segregation).
"The Thin Thread Line": or what shared horizon can we (still) build together? What horizons do we still have in common?
"Wet Snow": a perimeter-based sequencing of uncertainties within a reality (apparently) simplified into segments that (apparently) contain solutions to specific problems; each with their own issues, each with their own answers. What are we still capable of learning together?

What divides us (in the short term)?
What segregates us (in the long term)?

Segregation is a division of substance, not form. It carries social implications that transcend politics.
A cross-section through three segments (manifestations) of a slice of reality. Aspect 1 (vertical) – a reaction to the overflowing of the siphon of social movements that, until recently, had flown “under the radar”: “Notes from Underground”

Aspect 2 (horizontal) – signaling the potential unraveling of the shared horizon: “The Thin Thread Line”

Aspect 3 (vertical) – an analysis of the discomfort felt by all actors involved in the “social game” (standing in wet boots in the slush, the state homogenizes the “status quo”): “Wet Snow”

Across all three aspects/segments, the artist remains an observer and archivist of the manifestations of the “status quo.”