Au-delà - Rituals for a new world in Parijs, 15 feb. tot 7 Mei, 2023

Au-delà — Rit­u­als for a new world

In Par­i­js bezocht ik de ten­toon­stelling Au-delà in de kun­stru­imte Lafayette Anticipations:

Bring­ing togeth­er artists from across dif­fer­ent gen­er­a­tions, Au-delà trans­forms Lafayette Antic­i­pa­tions into a jour­ney evok­ing rit­u­als at once ancient and con­tem­po­rary, indi­vid­ual and col­lec­tive, pagan and divine, in the search of a new sacred, a new uni­fy­ing force.

While the world becomes increas­ing­ly wound­ed and des­e­crat­ed and peo­ple seem more detached from the mag­ic and pow­er of the earth, the desire to invent and rein­vent rit­u­als and lan­guages which would enable us to reach the sacred can be seen as a reac­tion to the degra­da­tion of the liv­ing, a coun­ter­cul­ture respond­ing to the gen­er­al pro­fan­i­ty of life. 

The sub­ject of rit­u­al — what makes us chant and dance, laugh and cry, dwell and tran­scend — tells a part of the his­to­ry of our human­i­ty while also out­lin­ing the one we hope to invent. Unfold­ing like a chore­o­graphed rite itself through new, as well as rarely exhib­it­ed his­tor­i­cal, mod­ern, and con­tem­po­rary works from the fields of art, music, fash­ion, and the­atre, Au-delà takes us into a world in con­stant trans­for­ma­tion, pulling us ​“beyond”, deep­er into our­selves and through the lay­ers of time in order to rein­force our pres­ence in the now.