︎ In the turbulence of now, the agreement is sealed. Self-reflection ignites. In
retrospect, a reboot beckons. Alternatives emerge. This narrative stands as an
embodiment of the right to illustrate how an immediate chain of signifiers materialises
through the notion of intuited meaning, birthing an immaculate fluid that transitions
generatively, potentially encroaching on cerebral risks associated with experiencing the
cruelty of judgment’s reception. Art, liberated onto the frontal plane of the unconditioned,
emerges from the contemporary milieu to align with contempt, embodying a will-powered
entity by extracting the autonomous functionality that comprises one's self. Through
anarchic agencies that fantasise about their own dissolution, art, all this time, attempts to
penetrate spectral barriers, transcending our immediate surroundings. Artisans obliterate,
vacate, and stitch. Through bootstrapping, each vividly identified artisanal subject
navigates the seam between indivisible nature and the symbiotic synergy of culture. In
this intricate formation, one journeys through multiple stages, evolving while conserving,
thereby informing the inner heretics who fold the seam. What resides within the vessel
may well find itself deeply disturbed. The artisan is transformed into a hypocrite,
transposed into the meshed content encapsulated by this vessel. Time is required to
reawaken the means to obliterate the seam that holds art captive, subjecting it to the
logic of nigredo, dusted granularly across the local scores of the game. Scoring this game
appears endlessly negational, as the paradox within its perplexing ordeal with ethics
manifests. By tormenting the concreteness of output contribution to the totality of its
world, this logic underpins the wicked plane of de'mmanence. A term, applied in
contradistinction to the immaculately immanent dream of ultimate contentment, absurdly
Excess enchanters take on roles at the fringes of the container, from the inside to the
foldaway seam, within curvilinear sites that remain oblivious in the realm of intersubjective
and interpersonal confinement. The artist's nodes, cursed by this nebulous and
vocational relationship within sociological orbits, serve as sources and basements for
imposing or installing a corresponding justification to fit the platforms sliding into the
power paradigms for destabilisation and its reveries. These platforms slip into disjunctive
symptoms, embodying a concrete-strapped crescendo-body, mimeticized by politics,
filtered through cultures, and wearied by recurring themes subject to the everyday culture
of corporeal existence. Grounded in conceptualist trajectories, they explore the
inauguration of complicated and extraneous remits by contemporary content, pulverising
meaning effectively here and now. If nothing unfolds outward, this constraint, this runway,
is external, more than a mere route of becoming; it is a vindication of the assignee, a role
that one is accustomed to, conditioned by, and cursed to reverse persistence.
Exceptional services pierce through and out of all that we consider our own, inscribing
ourselves through the influence's effect, igniting inflammations, creating prescriptive
attitudes, and expressing countless ways of permanent adaptation.
By Darko Vukić
Exhibition: Going Nowhere Slow
Gallery: Bazament, Tirana, Albania
Artist: Lori Lako
Date: October 2023
Exhibition: Going Nowhere Slow
Gallery: Bazament, Tirana, Albania
Artist: Lori Lako
Date: October 2023