POLY. A Fluid Show
KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst Berlin

The Beauties and Truths of the Many

In the global West, our plans for our careers and lives have typically been focused on being good at one thing (specialization), developing a consistent personality (individuality), and loving one person (monogamy). Contemporary aesthetics are still about refining one form (minimalism). Yet health, ecological, and political (poly)crises have a sustained influence on our conception of the unique, the singular, and dominant. A proliferation of options and potential solutions illustrates that we need a wide spectrum of love, of ways of acting and living and economic as well as ecological strategies to grapple with circumstances changed by wars, climate change, and the other upheavals we face today.

The publication accompanying the exhibitions POLY. A Fluid Show and Emma Talbot at the KINDL and Polychrome, Polymorph, and Polyharmony in Galerie Wedding - Raum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, explore the theme of nonbinary worldviews in contemporary art. The catalogue combines essays by Solvej Helweg Ovesen, Felicia Ewert, Maxi Wallenhorst, and Katerina Gregos summarizing extensive artistic and scholarly research with short interviews and texts with and about the participating artists Cibelle Cavalli Bastos, melanie bonajo, Elolo Bosoka, Kerstin Brätsch, Raquel van Haver, Nile Koetting, Toni Mauersberg, Thomias Radin, Na Chainkua Reindorf, Lorenzo Sandoval, Emma Talbot, and MIKEY Woodbridge.