this desire, to break, a phrase excerpted from the philosophical essay by Boris Groys titled The Others and The Sames, contemplates on the act of breaking away from the constructed identities we embody, as well our individual associations with society and perceived communities. For Groys, this impulse to “break from one’s community” is obsolete, more so, to talk about self-identity that is removed from the established notions of community. However, this exhibition recognises this shared desire to break, perhaps, is crucial to formulating identities from being the sames and/or becoming the others. Break here is viewed as a form of rupture— a disengagement from our own personal ideologies and beliefs as we coexist with each other in our own different subworlds.
Excerpt written by James Tana
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