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This summer MO.CO. Panacée
presents a group exhibition
exploring monstrosity, the
monstrous, and mutant forms
in contemporary art. To
paraphrase Antonio Gramsci,
we live in a time of monsters.
Gramsci may have been
reflecting on interregnum, a
moment of legal and political
in-betweenness in which
legality becomes suspended,
and which, in his case,
preceded the rise of fascism in
the 20th century. Yet the present
also does not seem immune
to what can only be described
as the monstrous, without,
however, being able to define
it more precisely. According to
the teratologist Jeffrey Jerome
Cohen, the monster represents
everything that a society tries
to reject or suppress. It is an
error, difference, deviance,
excess.
While these terms were initially
ascribed to monstrosity as a biological
anomaly, viewed from a scientific and
medical perspective, they now extend
more broadly to the notion of the
social monster: a being, an idea, that
reflects the current state of a society
and its collective imaginary. Through
nearly 80…
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Press Release
This summer MO.CO. Panacée
presents a group exhibition
exploring monstrosity, the
monstrous, and mutant forms
in contemporary art. To
paraphrase Antonio Gramsci,
we live in a time of monsters.
Gramsci may have been
reflecting on interregnum, a
moment of legal and political
in-betweenness in which
legality becomes suspended,
and which, in his case,
preceded the rise of fascism in
the 20th century. Yet the present
also does not seem immune
to what can only be described
as the monstrous, without,
however, being able to define
it more precisely. According to
the teratologist Jeffrey Jerome
Cohen, the monster represents
everything that a society tries
to reject or suppress. It is an
error, difference, deviance,
excess.
While these terms were initially
ascribed to monstrosity as a biological
anomaly, viewed from a scientific and
medical perspective, they now extend
more broadly to the notion of the
social monster: a being, an idea, that
reflects the current state of a society
and its collective imaginary. Through
nearly 80…
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