Familiar feeling
Rodriguez Gallery, Poznan, Poland, 2020
photo: Tomasz Koszewnik

Apparently, the process of defining the concept of ‘norm’ brings hesitation whether this concept might entail the liar paradox or the illusion of truth. Apart from the overriding task of a ‘norm’, which comes down to – paradoxically as it sounds – standardization and imposing of certain ideals, a series of multiplying contradictions should therefore be expected within the limits of the ‘norm’. Dedicating even a relatively small amount of time to its importance allows to notice some of the incongruencies. Normative absurdities are hidden in the form of linguistic constructions that lost all the value; gestures that turn into shallow automatisms, objects that became completely indifferent to us, or absurd human aspirations that only prove the authoritarian influence of norms. Familiar Feeling are visualizations of particular representations of normative behaviors. The model way of depicting art was used to exhibit objects whose content refers to model thinking through the prism of the cultural norms that surround us.

Text for the exhibition Familiar feeling, Rodriguez Gallery, 2020