The exhibition “Compassion Fatigue Is Over” presents the next step in the ongoing program “Rudolfinum_Time-Based“. A series of narrative videos and films, alongside architectural interventions in the gallery’s historical space, aims its attention at a set of essential topics of our times. Issues of race, labour exploitation, re-evaluated historical narratives, sexuality, and gender, fallen and rediscovered utopias or abstract thinking vital for any rational judgment. In contrast to everyday media reality’s disturbing noise, the exhibition gives space for a favourable reception of these themes’ given artistic interpretations. The gallery’s safe space provides conditions for a slower, more attentive appreciation of the given content than one could ever experience in the quotidian rush.
Haris Epaminonda has been invited to join the exhibition, together with Candice Breitz, Anna Daučíková, Naeem Mohaiemen, Jeremy Shaw, Hito Steyerl, Aleksandra Vajd & Anetta Mona Chisa. The work included will be Chimera, 2019, super 8 digitalised film presented in first place during the 58th Venice Biennial. Meditating on time, place and memory, Epaminonda’s Chimera is an experimental audio-visual travelogue.
The exhibition will open as soon as the circumstances permit. Stay tuned!