Exhibition
Gallery Weekend Berlin 2022
29 Apr 2022 – 01 May 2022
Berlin
Berlin, Germany
The exhibition opens on the occasion of GALLERY WEEKEND BERLIN 2022, APRIL 29–MAY 1, 2022.
DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM is pleased to present a group show titled OTHERING, curated by JONAS WENDELIN and featuring art and installation from YALDA AFSAH, JULIAN CHARRIÈRE, ALBRECHT DÜRER, FRANCISCO DE GOYA, ANDREAS GREINER, JENNA SUTELA, ANALISA TEACHWORTH, JOL THOMS, SUNG TIEU, and JONAS WENDELIN. The twelve artists explore how certain lives—human and nonhuman—are designated as alien, and the possibilities of forging relationships across the yawning chasm of self and other.
Othering is alterity in the active voice—the often violent process of designating a body as alien, which frequently precedes and accompanies social exclusion. But it is also the necessary precondition for any politics, good or bad. The possibility of hospitality is predicated on the unexpected arrival of a stranger; only be deciding to rename them as my guest can I assume the identity of a welcoming host. Ethics emerge on this threshold: without the other, there is no self.
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