TANK Shanghai Presents:
Suspension of Disbelief, 2023

Groupshow at TANK Shanghai
Featuring Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Florencia Rodríguez Giles, Lea Guldditte Hestelund, Ursula Mayer, Himali Singh Soin, Tai Shani, Song Kun, and Nora Turato
Curated by Mirela Baciak, Irene Campolmi, Helena Lugo, and Daniela Ruiz Moreno

Suspending disbelief involves self-awareness. It is the moment of poetic faith in which we know we are facing an illusion, yet we willingly surrender ourselves to it. A feeling similar to witnessing a magic trick, in which the rabbit vanishes inside the hat, just to reappear on the table a bit later; we indulge in aesthetic estrangement of the implausible, not because it escapes our logic, but because we desire it. The artists in the exhibition alter the reality we seem to know, and through that, offer us a possibility to temporarily experience the world and one’s own position in it, differently. 

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