DENIAL

An exhibition by Luki Milkereit, curated by Cristina Escobar

We are pleased to present the exhibition DENIAL by Luki Milkereit at reinraum in June on the occasion of CSD.

DENIAL deals with refusal - the refusal of feelings, of fluidity, of ambivalences and of everything that eludes fixed categories. The exhibition focuses on social mechanisms of exclusion and the persistence of normative orders that make diversity invisible and reproduce existing power relations. This is achieved through Milkereit's intuitive yet precise material practice. Found objects are transformed into so-called 'thingies' - beings and forms that deliberately elude clear attributions. They are neither art nor design, but open suggestions for other ways of seeing, thinking and finding form.

Supposedly fixed categories of value, function and identity are subversively questioned and expanded through new narratives.

As a self-managed exhibition space, reinraum also sees the exhibition as an invitation to exchange ideas. DENIAL is complemented by a Friends Gallery with two contributions from the artist support group - as an expression of solidarity and appreciation for the people who accompany and make this work possible.