Committed to Change

The theme of the exhibition is rendering visible and acknowledging the unseen work and independent activity of the artist in an individually chosen terrain. It problematizes the value of a contribution that is unquantifiable and ephemeral in contrast to the promotion of results based on effectiveness and fast profit from labour. The exhibition confronts with works in which the role of the artist as observer or documenter meets the role of the social worker. Artists conduct their self-exploration in a territory that is not predefined and change the status quo by means of active engagement in interpersonal relationships. This activity counts on intervention into the social environment, economic systems, educational institutions and disadvantaged social groups. These are, for example, environments left to the mercy of degradation and pillaging, the rejected remnants of socialism, abandoned pensioners, the unemployed, segregated social groups, artificially divided communities etc.