In Excess

“In Excess” understands itself as an intimate image, a template for interpreting connection, exploring sexual power relations and the sensory experience of our present through BDSM. Curated by Creamcake and happening as part of the seventh 3hd “Power Play” edition, the group exhibition features nine artists, collectives and collaborations who negotiate convention through the consensual practice of sadomasochism and play. It subversively or progressively embraces taboos and the desire for transgression and contradiction, as well as a longing for a loss, or conscious relinquishment of control. Cruising the infinite approaches to BDSM and its many loaded symbols, forms, and experiences, “In Excess” publicly engages and pushes boundaries, subverting existing social norms through photography, video and sculpture; installation, performance, and site activations. The works in the exhibition focus on the aesthetics of lust, while imagining notions of dominance and submission, softness and hardness, power and surrender, action and passivity, where each encounter makes visible the potent sensuality that’s generated outside of the mainstream.