Concept by Joanna Rajkowska
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 want to talk about what is living experience rather than an illustrated assumption. We do not explain, diagnose or apportion blame. 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.
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