Beauty Will Save the World at 10 Chancery Lane Gallery

As with most Russian people who were forced to read Dostoevsky in high school, I have a rather complicated relationship with his books and philosophical views. But I admired Nicholas Alexandrovitch Berdyaev’s writing and understanding of Dostoevsky, so I thought it would be appropriate to force you to read his quote:
“…«beauty will save the world» He knew, nothing higher than beauty, it is the supreme expression of ontological perfection, divine- but it is also antinomian, divided, impassioned, terrifying; it has not the godlike calm of the platonic ideal but is scorching, variable, full of tragic conflict.
Beauty did not appear to him in the cosmic order, on the divine plane, but through man, and so it shares the eternal unrest of mankind and is borne along the stream of Heraclitus”.
This understanding of beauty seems deeper and particularly appropriate since many of the artworks at the exhibition refer to numerous regional conflicts.

Artworks by Bùi Công Khánh, Chan Dany, Dinh Q. Lê, FX Harsono, Htein Lin, Josephine Turalba, Moe Satt, and Vũ Dân Tân. Curated by Iola Lenzi.

Exhibition period: 24.03-16.05
Gallery address: G/F, 10 Chancery Lane, Central