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MELANCHOLIA is a concept found in ancient, medieval, and premodern medicine, used to
describe a condition resembling depression, often accompanied by hallucinations and delusions. It
was also considered one of the fundamental human temperaments.
Melancholia is also the title of my solo exhibition, which opened in June @slaturhusid in
Egilsstaðir.
I finally have some time to share photographs of the works and tell the stories behind them here on
Instagram.
WHAT IS PRESENTED IN THIS EXHIBITION IS A BIZARRE INTERPRETATION OF THE
PHENOMENON OF MELANCHOLIA.
Today, the sources of melancholia can be found in our experience of living through simultaneous
catastrophes: ecological collapse, wars, and economic instability.
The aim of this exhibition is to represent hopelessness as a form of resistance. According to the
philosopher Slavoj Žižek, hope can sometimes make us believe that someone else will do what we
ourselves are responsible for doing. We wait for a saviour, or trust that time alone will improve
things. But what if the saviour brings even greater despair? What if, as in the figure of the “last
messiah” described by Peter Wessel Zapffe, salvation ultimately leads us toward annihilation?
My aim with Melancholia was to stop time and allow myself to feel hopeless.
Through the modes of perception of the weird and the eerie, described by Mark Fisher, I invite both
myself and the viewer to confront a world suspended between the past and the present, while
fearing the future.
The weird emerges when something does not belong in the world in which it appears; the eerie
concerns unsettling absences and presences.
📸@jessica.auer
Zrealizowano w ramach stypendium Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego
Funded also by Menningarstyrkur Múlaþings. Uppbyggingasjóður Austurlands, Myndlistarsjóður,
stypendium artystyczne wojewodztwa kujawsko -pomorskiego
describe a condition resembling depression, often accompanied by hallucinations and delusions. It
was also considered one of the fundamental human temperaments.
Melancholia is also the title of my solo exhibition, which opened in June @slaturhusid in
Egilsstaðir.
I finally have some time to share photographs of the works and tell the stories behind them here on
Instagram.
WHAT IS PRESENTED IN THIS EXHIBITION IS A BIZARRE INTERPRETATION OF THE
PHENOMENON OF MELANCHOLIA.
Today, the sources of melancholia can be found in our experience of living through simultaneous
catastrophes: ecological collapse, wars, and economic instability.
The aim of this exhibition is to represent hopelessness as a form of resistance. According to the
philosopher Slavoj Žižek, hope can sometimes make us believe that someone else will do what we
ourselves are responsible for doing. We wait for a saviour, or trust that time alone will improve
things. But what if the saviour brings even greater despair? What if, as in the figure of the “last
messiah” described by Peter Wessel Zapffe, salvation ultimately leads us toward annihilation?
My aim with Melancholia was to stop time and allow myself to feel hopeless.
Through the modes of perception of the weird and the eerie, described by Mark Fisher, I invite both
myself and the viewer to confront a world suspended between the past and the present, while
fearing the future.
The weird emerges when something does not belong in the world in which it appears; the eerie
concerns unsettling absences and presences.
📸@jessica.auer
Zrealizowano w ramach stypendium Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego
Funded also by Menningarstyrkur Múlaþings. Uppbyggingasjóður Austurlands, Myndlistarsjóður,
stypendium artystyczne wojewodztwa kujawsko -pomorskiego
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