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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…
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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…
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