SPHINX
2021
Hidden Thebes biennale
FOR
A REFUSAL
TO RETURN
T0 NORMALCY
The modern industrial information society has been led to infect the whole of the social body with its perception of a particular productive activity that is increasingly detached and abhors the very process of life, turning into a pure, mechanical and beastly, self-destructive force.Today's semi-automatic mechanisms of social perversion production, adapted within the production process itself, within its codified and technical subsets, concern not only the systems of knowledge, information and communication, but also the systems of construction of our inner desire, while forming a socialized as well as personalized, deep work planning.This planning is linked both externally and internally to the individual, in a classification of technical levels of supervision, social and institutional norms, state enforcement (government, law, police) that reveal only the abstract and frightening face, a machine of denial and self-destruction.In this clear picture for us, we try to reveal the inherent struggle of human creativity to the extent that it unleashes its potential, flows and energies through the channels of social discipline, shaping new organizations and expressions, touching new social relations, seeking new lands and new universes of life and desire, inventing new possibilities for autonomy and new paths connecting man with nature, revealing new "archeological" territories from lost future worlds, already buried in the prehistoric human authenticity to be released again.
As we were extremely strict in our choice, we chose beyond our original intentions, two exceptional artists of which we are proud to represent them. The selected artists are creating exactly that framework of connection and social interaction with audience that is one of the main purposes of social sculpture. The selected works will be presented as an appendix in the next international biennale 2021.
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