Curated by French thinker Georges Didi-Huberman, the exhibition “In the troubled air…” sets forth a political anthropology of emotion in a poetic tone, sketching channels of respiration and resistance to confront the persuasive culture of capitalism which has filtered into everything. The title, taken from Federico García Lorca’s Romancero gitano (Gypsy Ballads), invokes emotion that flows beyond and is not constricted to one sole subject, where the Lorcian idea of “duende” (...| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
For Didi-Huberman the only thing to be gained from the Medusa myth is that it reveals Perseus' victorious cunning—he having succeeded with the help of Medusa's reflection in his shield in decapitating the monster. To survive and to bear witness it is necessary to apply cunning. It is above all necessary to muster the ”courage to gain insight” into a numbing and/or life-threatening reality.| BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))