Sticky Flames. Bodies, Objects and Affects
VENUE: Casino Display, 1, rue de la Loge, L-1945 Luxembourg (under the CovidCheck regime)
Opening: Thursday 11.11.2021, 17:00 – 21:00
18:00 – 20:30 DJ set: Vitaminka (Cologne, Instagram: @minafljc)
Sticky Flames is a group exhibition with works by five young graduates from three art schools in the Greater Region and Brussels – Alexandre Caretti, Ksenia Khmelnitskaya (HEAR, Strasbourg, FR), Darja Linder, Jonathan Maus (HBKSaar, Sarrebruck, DE), Bruno Oliveira (ENSAV La Cambre, Brussels, BE) –, realised in collaboration with Mnemozine, a young philosophical-artistic association. The overarching theme encompasses questions about the body and affect as an epistemological, social theoretical, intrapersonal and aesthetic concept.
The body is a direct carrier, executive means and producer of social orders. Affective forces and their bodily expressions are subject to a relationship of tension between history and present public spheres, social contexts and the individual. In their areas of friction, transformative spaces for reflection and action open up in real as well as virtual worlds (such as in sociality, the media and social media), in which existing relationships, systems of order and patterns of thought are questioned, but in which social connectedness is also revealed.
Forms of mobilisation, resistance and empowerment – for example body language and consciousness, feminist and LGBTQIA+ activism, as well as the social and individual confrontation with vulnerability, shame, insecurity, fears or depression – react to body ideals and entrenched normalities and direct the gaze towards the Other.
Reactions to substantially objectified body experiences, or to bodies that comply or not with internalised gender roles or consumer and media pressures, can be translated into affects. The title of the exhibition refers to the viral phenomenon of flame wars, resulting when many users engage in online platforms and either maintain a heated discussion to an original post with provocative responses or try to defuse the flames.
In Sticky Flames, collectively, a shared human (fluid body) experience is reproduced, which is intended to stimulate dialogue among visitors, participants and artists alike.
Opening hours
Thursday: 13:00 – 21:00 Friday, Saturday: 13:00 – 19:00
Free entrance
Programme in the framework of Luxembourg Art Week :
12.11.2021 12:30: Guided tour of the exhibition
13.11.2021 18:00: Performances and lectures, followed by a free discussion with the audience and the artists. Presentaton: Mnemozine (Language: EN)
12-14.11.2021 from 17:00: Five very short (teaser) videos by the five artists participating in the exhibition are projected outside Casino Display to invite passers-by to come and discover what is inside. Exhibition open from 13:00 to 19:00.
