A GROUP EXHIBITION ON THE THEME OF DECAY
Folonomo Gallery, Sydney
Curated by Ira Ferris
Artists: Marine Coutroutsios, Haruyo Morita, Ana Lia Washinton
Mediums: conceptual drawing and zin, photography, calligraphy
January 2017

Palingenesis (from Greek palin, meaning again, and genesis, meaning birth) is a concept of rebirth or re-creation, used in various contexts in philosophy, theology, politics, and biology. It signifies the readiness to cast off the old and emerge into the new. 

It is through the discomfort of decay that we progress into the future. "That what is ordinarily imagined as disintegration is also, or instead, metamorphosis... Decay is a form of transformation... Part of the great rampage of becoming that is also unbecoming. It is cruel, it is death, and it is also life, degeneration and regeneration..." (Rebecca Solnit, Faraway Nearby, p79) 

The artists presented in this exhibition celebrate the beauty of (and in) decay as natural and essential to life. They celebrate degeneration as regeneration. 

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