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M 2 3 is pleased to present Of the dregs: Genera - an exhibition of new work by Erik Nilson. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, 30 June 2022 from 5 to 8 pm (patio reception). Please note: capacity inside the exhibition space is limited per the discretion of the gallery. The exhibit will be on view 30 June - 19 August 2022.
In the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy declared that any disaster henceforth could no longer be dispensed as “a misfortune whose consequences can be more or less easily circumscribed.” Not when our technological, economical, and political structures are necessarily imbricated; and especially not when we are responsible for helming such “interdependent totality of civilization,” as we march towards the end of time in blissful precarity. So much for our hopes for salvation, Nancy’s enjoinder is a bleak dagger: “Let us think that it is we who are arriving, or who are leaving.”
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M 2 3 is pleased to present Of the dregs: Genera - an exhibition of new work by Erik Nilson. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, 30 June 2022 from 5 to 8 pm (patio reception). Please note: capacity inside the exhibition space is limited per the discretion of the gallery. The exhibit will be on view 30 June - 19 August 2022.
In the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy declared that any disaster henceforth could no longer be dispensed as “a misfortune whose consequences can be more or less easily circumscribed.” Not when our technological, economical, and political structures are necessarily imbricated; and especially not when we are responsible for helming such “interdependent totality of civilization,” as we march towards the end of time in blissful precarity. So much for our hopes for salvation, Nancy’s enjoinder is a bleak dagger: “Let us think that it is we who are arriving, or who are leaving.”
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