Ayreen Anastas, Rene Gabri

The Showroom presents “Let it not be said they were naively, fearfully, simply, just making art”, devoted to Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri, with friends.

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“Let it not be said they were naively, fearfully, simply, just making art” at The Showroom, in London, is not an exhibition per se, nor is it a research process made public, nor a collection of screenings or performances, or talks or pedagogical experiments.

It may at times resemble all of these, or borrow from their grammar, but it begins with the premise that we have entered another time.

As the artists write: “It is a time when all of these forms and their processual reproduction (within an ever more biocidal capitalist political-economy) not only contribute to the proliferation of devastation and dispossession, but more precisely become an alibi, lubricant, or liturgy for it.”

“Let it not be said…” has the aspiration to open up a horizon of the common(s) and to interrogate the social power and social relations that money bestows and imposes.

The elements that will compose this “errant line” or “agitational time machine” into the contemporary will accrue or alter over time, but there will be some provisional anchors: a continuous film altered daily, a film refusing to be finished, to delimit or to disclose its subjects or objects; some traces wandering through the infinite paths of the common(s), an exhibition that is not an exhibition (of works) especially, because work itself is being revoked here, but rather as a spatialisation and materialisation of ideas, questions, encounters, and vulnerabilities; London common(s) course, a sister course to the common(s) course organised at 16 Beaver Street in New York entitled “Commoning the City and Withdrawing from the Community of Money”.

Ayreen Anastas, Rene Gabri, <i>Money is dead</i>, 2014 — Ayreen Anastas, Rene Gabri, *The walls within*, 2014

Until March 29, 2014
Ayreen Anastas, Rene Gabri, with friends
Let it not be said they were naively, fearfully, simply, just making art
The Showroom
63 Penfold Street, London

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Ayreen Anastas, Rene Gabri

The Showroom presents “Let it not be said they were naively, fearfully, simply, just making art”, devoted to Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri, with friends.

Design and ceramics renew a shopping center

Tomorrow's energy comes from today's ideas

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