“In the end, everything is resolved, except the difficulty of being, which is never resolved.”
-Jean Cocteau
MARCH 11 TO MARCH 26, 2016 AT THE 117 GALLERY
March 11 to March 26, 2016 at the 117 Gallery
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Opening Reception & Award announcement: Friday March 11, 6-9 pm at the 117 Gallery
See some images of this exhibition in Pinterest
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The circumstances of life are such that at one point or another something will break us. The loss of a life, a love, a job, a home, will shake our foundation and we will inevitably crumble. We then consider ourselves defeated; disheartened and utterly broken. But there is power in the acknowledgment of brokenness.
Never Not Broken is taken from the Hindu Goddess Akhilanda or the ‘Always Broken Goddess’. “Akhilanda derives her power from being broke: in flux, pulling herself apart, living in different selves [and states of being] at the same time, from never becoming a whole that has limitations.” (*1)
“Fluid connections, the celebration of ambiguity and a sense of ritual in chaos… deeply invested in the notion of complexity, this work will explore the arena of [brokenness] as an entree to rapture. Artists working in this mode push the deconstruction and dissolution of centre, definitions and boundaries to reach the sublime terror [and beauty] of placelessness [and brokenness]” *(2)
Brokenness is not indicative of weakness or inability, but rather can be a strong driving force towards creative output as a means of analysis, internalizing, and coping for many artists. This show seeks work that was created from a state of, and acknowledges our, Never Not Brokenness.
(*1) Excerpt from the online article Why Lying Broken in a Pile on Your Bedroom Floor is a Good Idea by Julie Peters, Elephant Journal
(*2) Excerpt from the Essay Beneath the Remains by Shamin M. Momin, The Gothic: Documents of Contemporary Art
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