Nynive (Berlin 🇩🇪)
Nynive is neither dystopian nor utopian. The sculptures, installations, tarot decks and graphic designs that compose the exhibition form an eclectic summa of the idols of our present and past societies: reminiscent of the mass-produced religious icons sold in tourist shops, deformed Buddhas are placed side by side with madonnas in burqa, striped of their original significance and imbued with the turboqueer values of a future era that might arise from the collapse of capitalism. As collapsing itself, capitalism is then idolatrized in Nynive, in the same way that any decaying society clings itself to the idealized values of its recent past.
Being Archaeologists of the Future means being somehow always misunderstood. Rediscovering for the first time the ruins of a city that doesn’t yet exist is sometimes exhausting, paradoxical. Undoubtedly always exciting. Cataloguing its Remains and Ruins is quite fascinating to us. Dating Future Ruins arouses and stimulates desire, dreams, and questions about present societies. The inhabitants of Za’Tara know utterly nothing about Yslam Nynive. Those who do, think we are crazy. Obviously this is all science-fiction, a micro-fiction created on purpose to entertain, fundamentally because we do need, as humans, to tell each other stories, to invent something. We invented everything. After all we believe in it. Do you believe in it?”
As it is possible to understand from the ruins, the future city of Nynive is founded on certain specific dogma, some pretty univocal central axioms: Queer Existentialism, a strong inclination towards a Pink Future intense directionality, and Anal Ecology ; a strong Vocation and Idolatry of High Capitalism : in this future society, Brands and Platforms’ Logos are worshipped like the Highest Deities. A strong, Polymorphic Religiosity where divinities from the Old World have been mixed up and joined by the New Gods. Nynive doesn’t exist. Nynive is, after all, micro-fiction. Us, we essentially believe in it. Do you believe in it?”
⚘ Work on show at Hosek Contemporary (Berlin 🇩🇪) ® Curated by: Fabiola Mele
⚘ Work on show at Hosek Contemporary (Berlin 🇩🇪) ® Curated by: Fabiola Mele