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Naked Nerve

The Naked Nerve exhibition describes the reality of the second decade of the 21st century, risking commitment to life, its ephemerality and fragility, its mortality. We use the materiality of our bodies to survive and record the unique moment and unique situation we want to arrange for the purposes of Naked Nerve. We want to enter the matter of life without armour or safety precautions, the way we are, unarmed.Naked Nerve is a response we give to reality facing the fall of the species and its culture – a reversed response.

Dealing with the issue of human relationships with other beings, of distinctiveness and dependency, Naked Nerve abandons the western paradigms of rationality. It focuses on matter, both the matter of our bodies, which are part of ecosystems sustaining our life, and the matter of all the beings surrounding us. It is therefore an exhibition of potentialities and weaknesses, frailty, memories of what is immature or overripe, of failure and dependence. And also of relationships and awareness of our place in social systems and ecologies of our Planet.

Joanna Rajkowska

 

The exhibition NAGI NERW (NAKED NERVE) is organized within the framework of the Master’s Studio of BWA Wrocław series. The Masters’ Studio is a review of the most interesting phenomena in young contemporary art, organized since 2012 by BWA Wrocław. The project is a meeting opportunity for artists who can be safely labelled contemporary classics with those representing the young generation. The formula of the Studio imposes the role of a curator on the master, whose role is first to choose, and then work with the selected artist or artists.

The first Master’s Studio, hosted by Zbigniew Libera, consisted of just a few people, and its diagnosis resonated quite widely among those discussing art in “the times of despair”. It was the time of the final disassembly of the modernity myth and appearance of post-artistic practices, practices questioning the boundaries of materialism and crisis of spirituality. Today, after the seven years that have passed since that exhibition, the artists will tell their stories of the world facing a catastrophe. It is a world transformed  by crises, migrations resulting from wars, and economic and political  tensions causing them. A world driven to the edge by the vision of a climate disaster requiring worldview reassessments. A world in which humans face a redefinition of their own species, hitherto juxtaposed with the inhuman. Joanna Rajkowska, one of the most widely discussed contemporary artists in Poland these days, has agreed to run the current edition.

The artist invited an exceptionally large group – as many as eighteen artists whose work penetrates the most painful and problematic areas of our reality in a uniquely defenseless and direct way.  The format of the Master’s Studio combines the wisdom of a mature generation of renowned artists with the horizon of experience of those who will soon be shaping the future of Polish art. The current stage of the project began where the previous one ended. In the project’s glossary, man is just one more mortal being whose ability to cumulate knowledge and experience confronted with an inevitable disaster – the extinction of species and climate catastrophe – perhaps makes him potentially interesting, but not special, and certainly not dominating.

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