The group exhibition Exit Elephantine curated by Lithuanian contemporary art curator Edgaras Gerasimovičius features artists Natalie Czech, Tata Frenkel, Robertas Narkus, Agnieszka Polska, Nesim Tahirovič and Gintautas Trimakas.
Not all works in the exhibition are artworks. Some are fragments of larger works, remnants of the production process, or even rumours. This eclectic polyphony creates a space where losses and errors from the translation process hint at the meeting of the personal and the collective. Here poetics of escapism becomes a tool to dismantle the narratives of the mainstream politics of escapism.
In the exhibition title, the Ultima Thule of the ancient world, the island of Elephantine, takes on the role of a clumsy, heavyweight character in a well-known English metaphor representing an evidently ignored problem. Neither imperative for action, nor a thing, Exit Elephantine is a more of an error mode of semantic production for intimacy and ultimate distance to intersect.
