Khôra
Views of the site-specific installation. ⓒ Carlos Bunga.
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The concept “Khôra” comes from Platos’s work, meaning the showcasing of an abyss, of an indent that emerges from philosophy’s core. Bunga uses it to reflects on the relationship between giving place and receiving – a space that receives without appropriation and a receptacle that is not reduced to what it receives – and suggests a dissident movement to the imperative of intelligibility of Western’s civilization.
In Plato's Timaeus, this term challenges the principle of non-contradiction that states that a proposition and its negation cannot both be true at the same time. As described by the philosopher Jacques Derrida, Khôra” seems to be neither this nor that, and sometimes both this and that. A giving place which is a constant oscillation between exclusion and participation. Along this line, Bunga’s installation asks us to open up to other ways of receiving and being received within the museum’s rational space and to renounce to any categorization or intelligibility support.
PROCESS
Bunga building his site-specific. Photos: Oliver Santana.
Curator: Alejandra Labastida
2013. Mexico City, Mexico.
