‘Things to Learn from Facebook’ at Giorgi Leonidze State Museum of Georgian Literature

The internet, including social media, is introducing new perspectives, perceptions and orderings of the world. We function in a world mediated by technology, where the boundaries of the physical and virtual are blurred. The relationships between the structure and functioning of social platforms and art seem to be of particular interest with regard to the shape of modern culture. The internet ceases to be just an artistic medium but also a part of the art world.

This phenomenon is a two-way relationship: on one hand, artists functioning in the culture of the internet change its architecture, and on the other, the internet – including social media – has an influence on the visual language of art, co-creating a new aesthetic.

Bownik, A Pole, 2017–2018, 4 photographs, clockwise from top left: A Pole 2, 2018, 110 × 80 cm, A Pole 3, 2018, 140 × 110 cm, A Pole 4, 2018, 140 × 110 cm, A Pole 5, 2017, 140 × 98 cm, courtesy of the artist

Jana Shostak Miss, 2018, an app in cooperation with Jakub Jasiukiewicz, courtesy of the artist

Kuba Dąbrowski, I Learned Simple Things, 2018, 20 screenshots from Instagram, digital print, 35 × 19,7 cm, courtesy of the artist

Katarzyna Korzeniecka, Recycling, 2018, artist’s book, handmade paper 24 × 30 × 4 cm, courtesy of the artist

Maurycy Gomulicki, Web’s Wonders & Curiosities, 2018, photographic mosaic in a form of wallpaper, each tile 20 × 20 cm, courtesy of the artist

Szymon Rogiński Internety *, 2018, artist’s book 23 × 30 × 1 cm, courtesy of the artist

Art often serves as a ‘litmus test’ for socio-cultural reality or as an ‘early alarm ystem’, anticipating certain changes and diagnosing them much earlier than socio-cultural theory. It very often also communicates or works out new solutions.

The ‘Things to Learn from Facebook’ exhibition subtly outlines a picture of the interrelated nature of the internet and the art world and of their mutual interactions.

Project organized by the Arsenal Gallery

Things to Learn from Facebook, exhibition view

Things to Learn from Facebook, exhibition view

Things to Learn from Facebook, exhibition view

Things to Learn from Facebook, exhibition view

Things to Learn from Facebook, exhibition view

Things to Learn from Facebook, exhibition view