(Ongoing) meme

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January 24, 2025 - March 1, 2025
Hypha Studio, London
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(Ongoing) meme brings together the practices of six artists, spanning mediums such as painting, installation, video, and performance. Starting from the concept of "performativity," it interrogates how cultural structures—be they emotional, economic, or technological—are constructed and solidified through continual performance, repetition, and standardisation. Concurrently, it examines how creative deviations and disruptions unsettle and reconfigure these structures.

The term "(Ongoing)" in the title denotes a state of continual becoming, thus rejecting the rigidity of pathosformel. The medium serves not only as a path for meaning transmission but also as a force field that shapes structures. The exhibition does not limit "meme" to the context of internet dissemination but rather positions it as a metaphor for contemporary cultural mechanisms: meaning emerges as a temporary structural effect within the shifting chain of signifiers, and is continually generated through différance and rupture. The exhibition seeks to provoke critical engagement from the audience regarding media and cultural apparatus: how meaning can be made to shift through replication, dislocation, and translation, in order to rewrite the established order.