You’ll Never Understand What I Put You Through

The group exhibition You’ll never understand what I put you through can at best be described as an unspectacular collection of attempts to question the human-object relationship. Oscillating between self-protective irony and a cynical post-truth, the presented works resemble the human scale in one way or another. The relationship between humans, objects and the intangible — such as constraints and confinements — is challenged through different, understated redefinitions. The show is not structured around the presentation of singular pieces but takes a structuralist approach in which the spatial construct of the white cube and the aforementioned intertwinements become a point of departure for both the viewer and the participating artists. Although there are three positions presented in this exhibition, the notion of a singular maker is absent, as the works complement each other in terms of both content and appearance. The artists collaborate and build further upon ideas they have developed and accumulated over time. Working with the debris of  the deconstructive tendencies of the 1960s and 1970s, they reassemble and borrow from traditional fields within the arts, while responding to it through the lens of this day and age. In doing so, the peculiar act of presenting is elevated to a space where one — still, finally, or again — can be incomplete and subjective, yet condemning its fundamentals at the same moment. It is precisely this paradoxical multitude that the show wishes to emphasise, yet never fully grasps upon; They’ll never understand what you put us through.