Not Here
@ Fernwey
916 N Damen Avenue
Opening Friday, January 23rd, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, February 15th
Drew Peterson – Megan Stroech – Steven Vainberg – Hyounsang Yoo
Talia Gutin on “fernweh”:
Fernweh, a word with no equivalent in the English language. When broken down, fernweh literally translates to, “farsickness,†and is often unsatisfyingly paraphrased as, “an ache for distant places.†Despite the translational shortcomings, and whether explained in German or English, the word remains difficult to grasp, perhaps because the feeling fernweh aims to describe is inherently ungraspable….
…The unknown is a place for reinvention. It’s a space of limitless possibilities and, as such, an opportunity to wipe our slates clean and begin anew. It is a chance to relinquish confining mental constructs of the self—how we view ourselves and how others view us. The formlessness inherent in fernweh allows us to re-conceptualize and re-create our being in any way we choose.
Read the full essay here:
http://www.fernwey.com/fernweh
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