The spontaneous exhibiting intervention in the foyer of Stredoslovenská galéria (Central Slovak Gallery)reacts to the social situation happening during the recent weeks. It´s a respond to the growing dissatisfaction of people in the society, which revolted against corrupted socialist state 24 years ago, but the society didn´t have any real vision, so it has just established assumed model of capital and parliamentary consensus, where the state aparatus acts as a deputy for oligarchy and sacrifies the general privatization of the public. The goal of the little exhibiting intervention „1848“ is by means of particular works of art to put into the clear context simplified relationships regarding the society from which we require to be solidaristic and egalitarian society.
The themes reflecting the issue: the concept of national state; nationalism; treating of socially weak; manipulating the middle class, protest, poverty; new idea.

artistsLucia Tkáčová, Tomáš Rafa, Anetta Mona Chisa, András Cséfalvay, Erik Sikora
curatorsMira Keratová, Zuzana Majlingová
placeSsG - Bethlenov dom
tags
castZuzana Majlingová
cameraJakub Julény
soundJakub Julény
editingJakub Julény
interviewJakub Julény
translationMichaela Wickleinová
categoryReports
published23. 5. 2014
languageČesky / English
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1848
The exhibition Happiness Is Not for Everyone is a look at the phenomenon of self-help guides that resuscitate the myth of the strong, masculine individual who has his life firmly in his own hands. However, when we focus more closely, we see a lonely man in distress. From the constructed nature of the situation—the asynchronization and denial of the source image and sound, the speaker's hesitant yet determined diction—we can guess that this is a game with authenticity, that we are witnessing the performance of a role, the fulfillment of a task, the immersion in the state of sovereignty.