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‘Aporias’ is an exhibition that consists twelve artists from Turkey, Serbia, Austria, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain who search ways to reflect upon this term within their own artistic practice. Aporia, a Greek term which means a ‘barred passage’, indicates a feeling of getting stucked, puzzlement, insolubility and undecidability when confronting a philosophical question.

Aporetic concepts are self- contradictory as they stand on the distinction line separating binary oppositions. They confirm that the passage from one term to its opposite is both possible and impossible. The distinction line between Absence/Presence, Life/Death, Self/Other, Material/Immaterial, Ephemeral/Permanent, Sovereign/Subservient are the sites where these im/possible passages might appear.

The artworks which are produced with different mediums such as painting, installation, digital collage, video and sculpture underline both the differences and the similarities between cultures. The exhibition questions the stability of the distinctions which are necessary for identity construction and it searches how Aporias can be represented visually. It also investigates on which distinction lines we can find Aporias, such as: Conceptual determinations – lines that frame the meaning/definition of concepts, the limits of the Body and Gender, borderlines between the countries and territories, limits of the language and the meaning, the im/possibility of translation.