"Reality is not"

Mutations, Simulations, and the Real

AAA, Lorenzo Ballirano, Iyo Bisseck, Johanna Bruckner, Kim de l'Horizon, Donia Jornod, Margaretha Jüngling, Marie-Eve Levasseur, Julie Monot, Valentina Pini, Małgorzata Stankiewicz

“Reality is not” is a Group exhibition that addresses the complex relationship between the notion of reality and the real.
It will feature ten artists who’s works, ranging from sculpture to interactive installations, will present a distortion of a certain reality as a means to transgress the norms. Additionally, two evenings during the week will be dedicated to dinners based around the same theme.

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Reality is not. Reality is not a negation. Reality is an infinite accumulation of negations.Reality encloses the real. It is the subjective gaze which imposes itself on the real and seeks to limit its contingency. Reality only wants to objectify itself in truth, in order to determine the static state of what is meant to be real. Its only purpose is then to affirm the injunction of social constraints.Denying reality liberates the realand its boundless multiplicity. Itplaces identity in a peaceful state of distortions. Contingency no longer creates fear, separation, or the necessity to say *what is* in order to constrain what seeks *tobe otherwise*. Contingency becomes an harmony of the bizarre. It creates a mutation of our ephemeral presence.Any distortion is thus understood as the transitive gesture which occupies our ephemeral nowness to destroy and renew it. Its mutant power rids us of the anxiety caused by the feeling that everything established within us is an illusion. We consent to our prison,but the negation transcends the lie that we offer ourselves as a social anesthetic. The reality is raw and hope therefore is possible.The real remains an impenetrable movement, a negation of the static states of reality. To say that the reality *is not* deposes the authoritative representations which prevent us from *not being*. To deny is a way towards the otherwise.To unceasingly want to shake-off what is instituted is a way of shaping the interstice within which the norm is overthrown. This interstice is in constant flux, and what we *are not*, what we *cannot be* changes along with it. It is the malleable space buried under the ideological confrontations of social realities which dictate *what is* and *what must be*. Inside us.Outside us. What must be our totality.*But we do not want to be. **Realty is not*Not to be is an act of occupation.It insinuates itself within the dominant in order to overthrow it.It is responsible for the joyful otherness of our mutations. It is in the distortion of the image that a space of hope can blossom. That space is situated between each of the destructive affirmations necessary for social peace, essential to the authorities who command it.Our mutation is a political gesture of the dream. It is born forand from the negation of norms.To make a space of free becoming.What claims *to be* is no longer,and our desire *not to be* becomes the abundance of our bad manners.