“Retrospective” is a collaborative exhibition by witnesses to the permanently transient immeasurable manifestation of the omnieternally disappearing and emerging chaos. As a spontaneously flowing spatial installation, the exhibition aims to look back upon the perpetual conflict between humanity and the universe, which has been tormenting men from the moment the first human hand reached for a stone axe. Imitating the ambitious, alas hopeless fight of humanity against unrelenting Chaos, the Congregation of Chaos investigates essential primal matters on experiencing the human condition and seeks reconciliation with an endlessly unfathomable universe.
Stepping outside the harrowing boundaries of knowledge and shunning expectations for success – we are free. Actualizing boundless self-potential, without self-imitation or endeavour for a static (artist-)image, we deconstruct the meaning of our creative output as well as our own selves. Congregation of Chaos’s “Retrospective” is a deconstructive process, which refrains from concentrating on authors, works or references and meanings between, but instead creates a spontaneously changing common space filled with the pure flow of boundless creation. Missing are the borders between a concrete work, a medium, and an author. The spatial installation evolves and devolves spontaneously, transmuting form and meaning. The void behind the witchstone flashes just for a glimpse and dissolves again into rubble. Members of the Congregation of Chaos realize the intrinsic human right to err and to improvise and thereby reconcile the humankind and the universe. Rock On!
The exhibition was streamed live on YouTube. The exhibition was accompanied by the public program that consisted of performances, talks, lectures, book presentation, workshops and raw art auction.
The exhibition was supported by The Cultural Endowment of Estonia and by the city of Tartu.
Exhibition views: Helle Ly Tomberg
Press and Publications
Baltic exhibition guide
Arterritory. 06/06/2019
Photo reportage from the Congregation of Chaos group exhibition ‘Retrospective’ at Kogo gallery
Echo Gone Wrong. 12/06/2019
Sailin’ on the Red Sea