Exploring the Return of Repression
rum46
Studsgade 46, st. tv.
8000 Århus C
Denmark
March 5 - April 8, 2010
Opening: March 5 17.00 - 20.00
Opening hours: 14.00-17-00
and by appointment
www.rum46.dk
Participants: Luke Fowler (GB), Hanif Kureishi (GB), Thomas Hirschhorn
(CH), Renzo Martens (NL/CG), Taller Popular De Serigrafia (AR), Michel
Tournier (FR).
Curator: Razvan Ion
The return of the repressed is a crucial theme, a key to understanding
recent history. 'The project of the West, the Nietzschean project, has
been to drive out religion and to produce a secular society in which men
and women make their own values because morality is gone. Then suddenly
radical religion returns from the Third World. How can you not laugh at
that? How can you not find that a deep historical irony?' (Hanif
Kureishi, in International Herald Tribune).
According to Freud, the very act of entering into civilized society
entails the repression of various archaic, primitive desires. For Freud
repression is a normal part of human development; indeed, the analysis
of dreams, literature, jokes, and 'Freudian slips' illustrates the ways
that our secret desires continue to find outlet in perfectly
well-adjusted individuals. However, when we are faced with obstacles to
satisfaction of our libido's cathexis, when we experience traumatic
events, or when we remain fixated on earlier phases of our development,
the conflict between the libido and the ego (or between the ego and the
superego) can lead to alternative sexual discharges.
The return of the repressed is the process whereby repressed elements,
preserved in the unconscious, tend to reappear, in consciousness or in
behavior, in the shape of secondary and more or less unrecognizable
'derivatives of the unconscious.' This return of the repressed, of
ideologies forced to marginalization, of sexuality subject to forced
secrecy, has resulted, in recent years, in an almost dramatic change of
a society filled with anguish, hallucinations, repression imposed by
unnecessary regulations that serve to the repressive violence of
governments against their own citizens. (Excerpt from the text
'Exploring the return of repression' by Razvan Ion).
Assistant curator: Silvia Vasilescu
Publications:
EXPLORING THE RETURN OF REPRESSION
Edited by Razvan Ion. Texts by: Andrei Craciun, Tatiana Greif, Daraka
Larimore Hall, Razvan Ion, Rolling Thunder, Ronald F. King, Urban
Larssen, Jose Louis Meiras, Suzana Milevska, Naiem Mohaiemen, Maria Eva
Blotta & Diego Posadas, Eugen Radescu, Michel Tournier. 31,5 x 42 cm, 32
pages, black & white, English/Romana Published by Pavilion, Bucharest.
Distributed for free.
Free download of pdf version: pavilionunicredit.ro/ziar_ETRR.pdf
This exhibition is a version of the 'Exploring the Return of
Repression', exhibition presented at PAVILION UNICREDIT, Bucharest, Romania.
Image: Taller Popular de Serigrafia, 'Serigraphy Workshop for the Masses
- Dario and Maxi presents / Work, Dignity, Social Change', July 26,
2002. Image printed for the first time at the cultural day celebrated at
the Puente Pueyrredón (province of Buenos Aires, Argentina), a month
after the shooting execution of Maximiliano Kosteki and DarioSantillán
assasinated by the state armed forces, in the name of democracy. 'Work,
dignity, social change' was the principal slogan of the politically
active organization, the Movimiento de TrabajadoresDesocupados
(MTD)-Anibal Verón.
Opening hours:
Thursdays 14.00-17-00 and by appointment
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