Mercredi 04 Mars 2015 12:57:59 par actuphoto dans Expositions

This exhibition on the subject of youth is concerned with the life plans, wishes, hopes and viewsof young adults and their position in the familial context, among groups of friends and in society in general. On the one hand they derive their guidelines, support and orientation from these while on the other they experience manipulation, paternalism and the pressure of expectations. Adolescence is determined by the difficult processes of finding meaning and the search for one’s own identity. In addition, it is strongly influenced by the discovery and development of the body and contradictory emotional states such as doubt and insecurity but also by rebellion, lightheartedness and a feeling that ‘anything is possible’. The artists are involved with the emotions and living conditions of young people and the context of their de facto social realities. The young adults of today are confronted with a media, advertising and casting society which demands conformity with communication and behavioural codices in an particularly intensive way. The difficulties implicit in being able to ‘keep up’ and the economic and political complications frequently lead teenagers − at the most vulnerable and unstable stage of their lives − into disillusionment, apathy, isolation, aggression, violence and dependence.

With : OLE JOHN AANDAL (NO), CLAUDIA BALSTERS (DE), DK (SI),
PAUL KRANZLER (AT), SIRA-ZOÉ SCHMID (AT), AXEL STOCKBURGER (DE/AT)

© Ole John Aandal