Vernissage: Samstag, 19. Juli 2008, 20 Uhr

Frontiers Of Our I
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung

Dauer der Ausstellung 19.07. - 01.08.2008


Konzert: Samstag, 19. Juli 2008, 20 Uhr

Little Animals (Nujazz)
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Ingo Gabriel: Trumpet&Electronics; Ofer Wetzler: E-Base; Chewing Gum: Keys

Hurray for the Riff Raff
aus New Orleans
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Afterparty
"Das Hotel" in der Mariannenstr. 26a / Kreuzberg
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Frontiers Of Our I

Our psycho-social existence has been so very much attuned to boundaries and differences within and without our I. Not only do we have the physical boundary of the skin, which separates our interior from the exterior but also have we built virtual frontiers within ourselves as well as non-virtual barriers without ourselves.

Internal barriers
Emotional difficulties are known to put our internal unity asunder. The effects might range over many shades from discomfort, non-productivity to aggression, which are further reflected to our environment in the form of fear, shame, violence etc. Another common internal barrier, of which the causes and courses are as well multiple, is a personality conflict. This not only leads to a swanking of humours… from melancholic, sanguine, choleric to phlegmatic but expresses itself further as frustration, intimidation, societal misfit, unreliability etc and thus a personality complex of the napoleonic order as viewed by Alfred Adler or of the narcissistic order as defined by Erich Fromm or Sigmund Freud. These all culminate to other grave consequences that might build a bridge to external barriers like wars, racism, and colonisation.

External barriers
Apart from building boundaries between countries, tribes and races, we misuse the internal difficulties and complexes of our I as masks to justify our prejudices and misconceptions. As much as Iuvenalis’ “Mens sana in corpore sano” is of validity, so too is “an unhealthy esprit in an unhealthy body” valid and this resonates in the immediate environment as frontiers of all kinds. Ideological debates about Turkish women wearing headscarves or not, if Africans rob Germans of their jobs and women, if all Arabs are sympathisers of Al-Qaida, if Poles rob Germans of their cars and jobs, if juvenile delinquent Germans of foreign origin should be deported, if the black sheep in Switzerland are responsible for >70% of rapes and other criminal offences, if some human beings are superior to others just because of the colour of their skin, etc are just a few of these external barriers that arise from our deep-rooted inner disruption.

Exhibition
This exhibition toils on very subjective views of these internal and external boundaries. It focuses on mankind’s ignorance and arrogance towards his/her kind and nature, on the masks we all carry around to compensate for our inner rupture, on how we reduce our existence to our temperaments, on consequences of egoism, victimisation and exploitation, as well as on ART.

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
www.soh-bonny.com
the day we lost our innocence
bellyful series
acrylic + chalk on canvas, 160x180cm, 2007

 the day we discovered our ignorance
bellyful series
acrylic + chalk on canvas, 160x180cm, 2007
who is the victim 1
acrylic on canvas, 160x185cm, 2007		 who is the victim 2
acrylic on canvas 160x185cm, 2007
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