GALLERI DUERR

In Dirty & Disorderly: Contemporary Artists on Disgust, Anna Ting Möller, New Red Order, and Nguyễn Duy Mạnh use the aesthetics of disgust to understand the social construction of putrid and squalid things. Disgust has been interpreted as an evolutionary tool of survival to create distance between ourselves and that which may harm us, particularly foods. Beyond fears of contamination and filth aversion, disgust has also been weaponized as a tool of oppression, including in colonial and caste systems. To assign the label of ‘disgusting’ to something also implies ‘lesser than’ or ‘filthy’ statuses — intertwining visceral disgust, or the instinctual sensation of being repulsed by something, with the politics of moral and interpersonal disgust. Representing bodies beyond skin — mutilated figures, deformed sculptures, and overflowing fleshy wetness — these artists and their art interrogate the limits of traditional kinship and capitalist and colonialist structures and rethink illusory certainties of human experience. Through ceramics, kombucha scoby, and photogrammetry, the artists pick at the sutures of social structures and uncover the ways in which the ostensibly innate responses of disgust can be (re) programmed.

The world is full of wonderful trailblazers. Designers who have made furniture, designed cars and houses, and decorated homes. Innovators who have created training programmes and started festivals. Designed textiles, glass and fashion. Full of change, curiosity and creativity. In this exhibition, you will meet all these ground-breaking designers – women! Curious pioneers. Welcome inside a universe of wonderful women trailblazers. Wise, rebellious, strong, exciting and, above all, curious pioneers who have challenged convention and expectation. They have all worked hard to earn a place in the world of design. This exhibition is about all these amazing female pioneers of design. You will meet women who are active today, as well as women who lived and worked in the past. Women from Asia, America, Africa and Europe. Women who have designed products for IKEA, and women who have worked with completely different projects, organisations and industries. The vast majority of the women you’ll meet in this exhibition have had to challenge themselves and the world around them in order to succeed. Something we can all be extremely grateful for. Because they have all forged their own path, and in doing so have created a better, more beautiful and more interesting life at home. Thank you!