WEST END! | Jeruselum
WEST END!
Museum on the Seam, Socio-political contemporary Art Museum | Jeruselum
11 June - 31 Dec 2011
With the end of the 20th Century, characterized by the birth and demise of major Western ideologies, are we now witness to the rise of old and new ideas as the new dominant element in the 21st Century?
WEST END? Will open at the Museum on the Seam in June 2011 and will continue until the end of December of that same year. The exhibition will deal with the meeting that takes place between eastern and western cultures in the political arena in the universal realm and the events that are delineating an unknown future of tomorrow's world. Is this a symbiotic meeting or a clash of civilizations?
The exhibition will attempt to explore the reciprocal relationship between the cultures and the changing power relations between them and to examine the signs that reveal the decline and fall of the West while shedding light on the signs that characterize the rise of Islam and its spreading influence on western civilization.
The curatorial approach and the works selected for inclusion will reflect a wide view based on real and current events as well as research and academic essays from different fields.
Our current exhibition, The Right to Protest is on show as a continuation of our exhibition series dealing with different themes of human rights. The exhibition examines artistic expressions against repression and other forms of injustice and aggression that risk the basic freedom and existence of the individual and the public - based on the principles of rebellion as the natural right of each human being, allowing the viewer to examine how minorities and nations make use of The Right to Protest, here and now.