The Disagreement: A Theatre of Statements: Curadoria: Bernardo José de Souza | Neuer Kunstverein Wien - Viena, Áustria

Vivian Caccuri | Andressa Cantergiani | Maurício Ianês | Daniel Lannes | Cinthia Marcelle & Tiago Mata Machado | Ana Mazzei | Ventura Profana | Luiz Roque | Tadáskía | Allan Weber
Curated by Bernardo José de Souza

THE DISAGREEMENT: an unstable semantic game, a scenario where polyphonic narratives clash on the political horizon.

The shattered grounds of today’s ideological debate conjure up a platform where distinct actors convey their respective monolithic discourses despite other concurring voices, as if a sovereign language were being used to depict unidimensional views of a multi-layered reality. Altogether, such narratives amount to nothing but a misleading hegemonic façade: social, political, and moral constructs informed by a colonial drive irrevocably oblivious to the existence of diverse symbolic and material backgrounds.
This exhibition operates as an apologue of sorts, a conversation between artworks through myriad avenues of communication leading to otherwise unheard narratives —a “performative contradiction” aimed at deconstructing ontologies of power devised to establish a single discursive channel, one that prevents other social choreographies to take central stage at the public arena.
Depending on the symbolic economies we face, the world appears differently, as an ever-changing virtual realm, albeit the existence of a never to be dismissed, unifying political ground: the all-encompassing though uneven battlefield for control over language and historical narratives.