In general, symbolic consistency is a function of tacit buy-in, collective identification, and repetitive social practices. We learn to speak and write, and we observe institutions coordinating and responding to language as though it is held in common. To say that the symbolic is in decline or disarray is thus to mark the loss of this effective common, to find that the authority backing the use of signifiers and grounding their felicitous signification across differences in context and groups has dissipated. Words drift freely and, as a result, fail to secure an order of stable interpretation; to the extent that interpretations held in common can provide defenses against traumatic antagonisms, the loss of functional meaning harbingers intensified encounters with the unassimilable.
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This wholly irrational dynamic points to the dimension of enjoyment and desire: symbolic systems have changed, and the medium of language has undergone transformation, leaving individuals jammed in their own sovereign mini-reality, identification and projection, imaginary unbound.
193 Gallery is delighted to be taking part for the first time in the ARCOmadrid fair, with a booth featuring works by April Bey, Jean-Marc Hunt and Adler Guerrier. In addition, the works of artist Adler Guerrier will be featured in the programme “The shore, the tide, the current: an oceanic Caribbean”, curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates and Sara Hermann Morera, with the architectural design of Ignacio Galán, Álvaro Fidalgo and Arantza Ozaeta. Discover our booth 7C28, from March 6th to 10th.
Outside wall of the booth of 193 Gallery at Arco, featuring Untitled (Field Guide–an ordering of imaginaries into new geographies perceived in the present) i-v and Untitled (whispered intelligence, calling away despair).
