Curated by French thinker Georges Didi-Huberman, the exhibition “In the troubled air…” sets forth a political anthropology of emotion in a poetic tone, sketching channels of respiration and resistance to confront the persuasive culture of capitalism which has filtered into everything. The title, taken from Federico García Lorca’s Romancero gitano (Gypsy Ballads), invokes emotion that flows beyond and is not constricted to one sole subject, where the Lorcian idea of “duende” (a state of heightened emotion or expression) comes into play. Where emotion is understood here as a movement transmitted to collectiveness via a unique body, one that is predisposed to develop into a…
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