Ordet

JON RAFMAN
₳Ɽ₮ɆⱤ Ø₣ ₩ØⱤⱠĐ₴
OPENING FEBRUARY 10
6-9 PM

Today's shared cultural identity, today's egregore, is evasive and contradictory. It is as homogeneous as it is fractured and atomized. Its arbiters are nameless. They are the moderators employed by big tech. They could be everyone or no one. ‘s works flow from this condition. His characters and stories, like his sources, are anonymous, forgotten, or illusory. They pose the essential artistic question: what does it mean for something to be Real?

The word egregore originates from the Greek word for wakeful. It refers to the development of a shared abstract cultural identity (or autonomous psychic entity) that influences the group that gave rise to it. The unique symbiotic relationship between the egregore and its parent group is now associated with the concept of the meme. This occult idea is also a fitting framework for engaging Rafman’s exhibition at Ordet.

Open Wed-Sat, 2–7 PM

The exhibition has been generously sponsored by .kostyal