ERRO 417: Expectativa Falhada
Event
The fear of failure (simultaneous with the desire for success), boosted by the capitalist economic system (which infects all other social and cultural systems), has become both one of the greatest human driving forces and the value of judgment by which we evaluate ourselves, serving as a measure that establishes social hierarchies. But the concepts of failure and success are never free from prerogatives: the idea of success is intrinsically linked to several determining factors - skin colour, gender, sexuality, etc. - and, above all, to fulfil the expected roles within these categories.
Failure, and learning from failure, take on an important role in artistic output - between dissatisfaction, rejection, doubt, error and experience, the idea of successively trying and failing can fuel speculative experimentation and conceptual creation. Assuming the premise of failure as a tool of counter-hegemonic resistance, this exhibition, curated by Marta Espiridião, calls for criticism of the static models of success and failure, and for questioning their role in the construction of personal and ordinary life.
Failure, and learning from failure, take on an important role in artistic output - between dissatisfaction, rejection, doubt, error and experience, the idea of successively trying and failing can fuel speculative experimentation and conceptual creation. Assuming the premise of failure as a tool of counter-hegemonic resistance, this exhibition, curated by Marta Espiridião, calls for criticism of the static models of success and failure, and for questioning their role in the construction of personal and ordinary life.
