Reports

New permanent exhibition

Juraj Gábor’s (b. 1985) “New Permanent Exhibition” consists of a series of chronological events, gallery works, interventions and happenings that respond to the specific context of one specific regional institution. The exhibition responds to the architectural nature of the exhibition spaces, history, and current state of the Novohrad Museum and Gallery.

artistsJuraj Gábor
placeLučenec
tags
castJuraj Gábor
cameraKapelová Jana
soundKapelová Jana
editingKapelová Jana
interviewJana Kapelová
translationEva Maršíková
categoryReports
published11. 3. 2011
languageČesky / English
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New permanent exhibition
In our jargon, the somatic exhibition was called svät. Svät took place at the turning point of time and space, embedded in and at the same time separated from the world ruled by time, space, meaning, and significance. Entering the exhibition was a ritualized transition between the world and the svät, between two different dimensions of the same reality. Pilgrims were torn from their everyday lives and thrown into a sacred space-time, where their derailed minds were exposed to events that were unheard of outside.
By dissolving boundaries, cultural constructs, nationalities, taxonomies, and skin, we transform old paradigms of human/non-human, toxicity/purity, and living/dead into permanent cooperation with the foreign. After all, all boundaries are only transitional spaces where matter morphs and theorizes a new existence.