Trauma Fauna

 

​​​​​​Suffering is not romantic. Yet we’ve built temples out of it.

 

Trauma Fauna dismantles the fetish of the tortured genius, drawing from the psychological concept of post-traumatic growth, the show explores how extreme adversity can rupture the self, not to clean it up, but to let it bleed. This isn’t about romanticising pain. It’s about what crawls out of it. 

Art as purge, as exorcism, as twisted fairytale. Through painting, sculpture, video and performance, these artists drag their demons into the studio and make them work.

 

​Trauma isn’t noble. It’s a fucking mess. It’s about the strange, unholy beauty that grows in the wreckage.

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This is not healing. This is survival with style.

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Antoine Goossens - Carlota Juan - Elio Ticca - Manu Engelen  - Mathias Vef -  Mathieu V. Staelens - Nathan French - Nina van Denbempt - Prigari

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