Overview
Group exhibition featuring Firalei Báez, Semiha Berksoy, Anna Betbeze, Anna Boghiguian, Hugo Canoilas, Beatriz González, El Hadji Sy, Donna Huanca, Helen Johnson, Lee Kit, Victor Man, Thao Nguyen Phan, Khalil Rabah and Raphaela Vogel.
Carnivalesca creates a dialogue with a traditional art form: painting. For this exhibition, the meaning of carnival has been interrogated. While the phenomenon of carnival is generally associated with a Western Christian festive season, it has antecedents in antiquity and has undergone innumerable syncretic cultural transformations around the world. Interpretations of carnival present it as a social institution that degrades the higher functions of thought and the sacred realm of the soul by translating them onto the bodily and the grotesque, ultimately, to renew society and the world in which it appears. This may also be seen as a site to release the impulses that threaten the social order and the norms it regulates; and as a place where divergent social groups can focus their conflicts and incongruities.
