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Yota Ayaan, Trauma Response
Duplex AIR, Lisbon, Portugal
12 November —
03 December 2021
Aotearoa artist Yota Ayaan features in Trauma Response, a group exhibition at Duplex AIR, Lisbon.
There are many collective, personal and environmental traumata in history and there is a conspiracy of silence around many of them. In these times of human made catastrophes, we need to look at these shadows of human existence, so we can finally learn from them, become aware of dangerous patterns and not repeat history. Now is an especially critical and interesting time in human history and we can set the direction where humanity is going to head. This is a moment in time where culture could experience an evolution. Creating is culture and culture evolves in crisis. We have to see it as an opportunity to begin something anew.
This exhibition tries to shed light on a variety of ways of responding to trauma. It tries to show its contrasting sides: the suffering, but also possibilities of coping and the beauty that can emerge from it. How do we respond to trauma? How can we heal after incising, paralyzing pain and suffering? Like the Jacaranda tree, that blooms twice a year in Portugal - in spring and again in autumn, when it is spring in its origin Brazil - we also can evolve and create something beautiful out of our traumata.
Aotearoa artist Yota Ayaan features in Trauma Response, a group exhibition at Duplex AIR, Lisbon.
There are many collective, personal and environmental traumata in history and there is a conspiracy of silence around many of them. In these times of human made catastrophes, we need to look at these shadows of human existence, so we can finally learn from them, become aware of dangerous patterns and not repeat history. Now is an especially critical and interesting time in human history and we can set the direction where humanity is going to head. This is a moment in time where culture could experience an evolution. Creating is culture and culture evolves in crisis. We have to see it as an opportunity to begin something anew.
This exhibition tries to shed light on a variety of ways of responding to trauma. It tries to show its contrasting sides: the suffering, but also possibilities of coping and the beauty that can emerge from it. How do we respond to trauma? How can we heal after incising, paralyzing pain and suffering? Like the Jacaranda tree, that blooms twice a year in Portugal - in spring and again in autumn, when it is spring in its origin Brazil - we also can evolve and create something beautiful out of our traumata.