In the face of the questions that arise about the potential role of art and artists, the exhibition Beyond Good and Evil is a proposal to recall the critical traditions of art confronting the mechanisms that generate threats and violence. It is a proposal to look at both current and historical perspectives on artistic practices that engage in disputes with a world that sanctions violence and aggression. The exhibition features artists who oppose the amnesia surrounding the atrocities of the present and the past not through occasional gestures or ad hoc declarativeness, but by developing narratives of visual culture that teach how to ‘replace the argument of force with the force of the argument’. These are artists who distance themselves from the scepticism shown towards art’s engagement with non-artistic issues, and perceive reality beyond the titular rhetoric of ‘good and evil’ to confront the mechanisms that generate threats and violence in their works.

The exhibition is accompanied by a film featuring the presented artists who talk about their own inspirations and circumstances for creating their works.

Curator: Bożena Czubak

The project is the item of the Art Archives programme.