Curiosity text

Poet Antonio Porchia once wrote something that sounds like it was designed just for the exhibition of Curiosity: "I know what I gave you, but I do not know what you received."

Is the message that we should receive somewhere behind an obvious provocation?

If we try to figure out the methodology, it is also obvious that the models, all these people did not find naked in different places. They undressed for art. The whole project is directed nature and the meaning is created through several different choices, such as the choice of the model and the location of photography, and finally the choice of exposed photographs. The way models are photographed points to the question: Is this erotic, pornography, or experiment? We are also wondering if these are nudists, exhibitionists or people eager for fun? Would they want to take their clothes off in front of our camera and would we want them to undress in front of our camera?

The quality of this exhibition is precisely that there is no single answer.

The Exhibition of knowledge is on the line of separation of pleasure and inconvenience, freedom and fear, perhaps erotic and pornography. There is no drama here, but the drama itself is no more instructive than the novel, which is why this exhibition should be read as a novel about people.

As for the nakedness itself, it only provokes us, but so we need it, because we often forget that it was not always the case. Some philosophers are wondering why, as a civilisation, we have made more progress in terms of cooking than in terms of eroticism, sex or nudity:

"The Greeks and the Romans publicly honoured only one part of the human nudity-falus, which was painted in a form ready for fertilisation in all public squares, on every home facade, at every crossroads, and on the amulets for happiness worn by girls."

So enjoy the pictures of naked people and smart art.

Long live art!

Text by Vesna Micovic