The aim of To see our common/place is to attempt to defy the implausibility of the environmental crisis by dissecting its dominant socio-political structures through the lens of local and personal experience, and thus ask if it is possible to overturn its characterisation as hyperobject. As we are embedded in abstract, global power structures, it is the personal, local, and banal construction of everyday life that may constitute the only means by which the individual can connect to wider systems. To see our common/place aims to reclaim an awareness of our own political voice and our personal agency in the shaping of our societies and the environment.

While it does not deny that positive change on a global scale will come in the form of structural change, it will reflect on the ways in which individuals may become aware of the existing socio-political systems, so that it is possible to transform or dismantle them. The exhibition also seeks ways to step out of the dominant framework of these oppressive structures, in order to grapple with the seemingly ungraspable nature of the environmental crisis and encourage us to look for solutions that may contribute to the global picture. Only by dissecting the crisis can we step out of the ecological paralysis, foster a discussion around it, and hopefully, rise above it in the near future.

Check the online exhibition:

http://toseeourcommonplace.parallelplatform.org

Artists

Gustavo Balbela

Johanna Karjalainen

Indrė Urbonaitė

Shelli Weiler 

Domonkos Varga

Curator

Eszter Erdősi