Cyprien Gaillard at Trafó Galeria, Budapest
The prospect of what we do not know, both individually and collectively, is terrifying. The final frontier. With the bottomless pit of the internet at our fingertips, it's easy to think we can know anything, should we choose to. But this phenomenon keeps us coming back for more: we thrive off the mystique and the unknown. The Dunning-Kruger effect kicks in, and as one's confidence often decreases with the more knowledge one acquires, we also learn that exploring and mining new information and territories always comes with a firm power imbalance. Indigenous knowledge, peoples, and land swept away in favour of Imperialism and colonisation, the same stories over and over again, but in different time frames, and an inability to compartmentalise the fact that history does indeed repeat itself. This is barely any different to the billionaires exploring the depths of the oceans and the expanses of outer space. New information is never fully shared with the masses; it is gatekept fo...
