Instinct for the actual

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Instinct for the Actual brings together five artists who administer a sensual relationship with our rapidly developing immaterial worlds; At times there is a battle between romantic notions of the self as opposed to the rationale of systems of reproduction, especially as manifested in digital and lens-based culture. They combat the failings of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's character in White Nights who laments, "...it begins to seem to me at such times that I am incapable of beginning a life in real life, because it has seemed to me that I have lost touch, all instinct is the actual, the real..."