Exhibition
Un_Real Desires
22 Oct 2019 – 27 Oct 2019
SomoS
Berlin, Germany
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Ivan LOZANO - ‘FANTASY VISION MEDITATION Version 2’- Video projection, Mirror tiles - 120x96x60cm - 2009
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Melissa Steckbauer - 'S&B (blue, bed)' - cut B_W inkjet print on colored paper - 126cm x 84cm - 2013
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Pedro Matias - ‘Brushes’ - +4500 tie-raps, display motors, metal drainer, bleech bottle _ shopping basket - 80 x 80 x 250 cm - 2018
Exhibition
Un_Touchable
20 Oct 2020 – 31 Oct 2020
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Event map
Featuring 8 international artists, Un_Touchable deals with themes of memory, desire, intimacy, vulnerability, and contagion. The show explores a sense of deja-vu that connects our time with earlier fragile periods, evoking a poignant and sensitive nimbus of contemporary feelings.
About
The term “untouchable” is often used concerning beauty, disease, and/or class. Something desirable that is represented virtually, unreachable across time and space -as in art or in erotica- is also untouchable. Building on these associations, the Un_Touchable exhibition conjures a restive and conflicted state of mind, between longing and anxiety, drawing on, and responding to the mediatization of desire and disease.
The presented works draw on the sense of uncertainty and deja-vu that connect pandemic times; using video, photography, installation, and other means to create an imaginative, associative nimbus where memory, imagination and speculation converge in unpredictable and free-floating ways.
In Un_Touchable, the works are given an open, respecting framework that gives free rein to the various works’ individual concerns, strong aesthetic, and sensory impact. The joint emanations of the various artistic positions may evoke a poignant, and thoughtful state of mind.
Un_Touchable is a part of a recurring exhibition series that is dedicated to exploring the mediatization of sexuality and intimacy, coinciding with the Berlin PornFilmFestival.
Responding to the current pandemic, the project is extended into the virtual realm with online manifestations such as virtual artist’s talks, video interviews, and social media projects addressing the increasing needs for accessibility and human connection.
