UGLIFICATION
we call “uglification” a current trend that we noticed among artists, both in France and Ukraine, intentionally going against the “good taste” in order to question the paradoxes of our hypermodern era:
computer and digital revolution
hypertrophy of consumption
worship of flawless bodies
mass access to pornographic contents
end of metaphysics and master narratives
instead of strictly tackling those issues, we take an ironic look on their inconsistencies, by twisting the codes of “beauty” specific to each of these hypermodern stigmas.
for most of our artists, this means going back to the roots of that decade in which they grew up, when all excesses were born: from the middle 90’s to the early 2000’s.
with ironic detachment, they re-appropriate, redefine and reclaim aesthetics that are considered “ugly” by standards of convention and taste.
they embrace imperfection, insignificance or failure.
against the HD resolution they praise early computers aesthetics, or the digital deficiency
for the urge of zero-flaw plastics, they answer with excessively exhibited bodies, or with the so castigated fashion vulgarity
for mass porn, they show mundane erotic accumulations
to respond to the end of metaphysics, they create mini-encrypted-epiphanies,
etc.
thus, we do not define the ugly as a specific set of plastic characteristics, but rather as a symptom of our time.
our exhibition is not an answer, but a blossom of artistic explorations, an attempt to capture the irony of our time.
13 - 20 april 2019
UGLY IS A JOKE
ugly is a non-sense
ugly is an ironic look at a decadent world
ugly is like a shapeless fresh air breezing on your eyes and crowding in your ears
ugly is an anti-metaphysic
against the zero-flaw plastics
against the good taste and the narrow-minded
UGLY IS OUTDATED
born around the 90’s
critical and nostalgic
we crave for the low
we praise the kitsch, the vulgar, the creaky
praise the ugly
for it may be
tomorrow’s glory
UGLY IS EXCESSIVE
we embrace pixels
we embrace fluo, glitter, high speed and low speed
we glorify the marginal, the off-track, the primitive
we glorify the meaningless and the retarded
we call for freedom with no boundaries
// events
opening 13 april
john object: live music
anthony junkoid: dj set
olexiy dyachkov: live music
facebook event here
finissage 20 april
yana franz: fashion show
malo lacroix: video projection
mokri dereva: live music
eugene the oceanographer: live music
facebook event here
video and exhibition posters by Jugoceania
// our ugly artists
ADSL Honeymoon
Prints, digital art
Apprendre à s’user / The more you know, the more you wear out
Anne Lise Le Gac
Video, 38 min
L'Âge du Faire : hacking, travail, anarchie / The Age of Doing: hacking, work, anarchy
Aurélia Declercq
Visual installation
Spoiler to spoil
Carole Mousset
Mixed media installation
CRY ® : Beyond Eternity
Elena Subach & Viacheslav Poliakov
Prints, photography
City of Gardens ; Grandmothers on the Edge of Heaven
Fabien Grt
Prints, photography
Toilets
Gentils Floquets
Ink on paper
UGLY (U: la possibilité du nihil ; G: 2003 ; L: extension of the domain of struggle ; Y: Damien Hirst & Jeff Koons dividing up the art market)
Igor Chekach Kov
Prints, glitched photography
NA4JOPM8
Jugoceania
Video, 3 min
Ugly : The digital aging of the object in the process of daily compression
Julie Poly
Installation, computer card game
Космолот / Kosmolot
Maria Ralemskaya
Mixed media installation
Околоцветник / Perianth
Mariya Vasilyeva
Video, 6 min
Altar
MASSA
Book of artworks
Massa
Matthew O'Toole
Video, 8 min
My Leprosarium
Maxim Zatsarinniy
Video, 15 min
Svitlo
Oleksiy Say
Print, excel art
Cubicle
Royal Gripon
Mixed media installation
How is it possible ?
Sasha Kurmaz
Prints, photography
Oh Yeah, Yea, Yea, Yea!
Viktoriia Dovhadze
Prints, photography
Zoloto Karpat
Yuriy Bolsa
Prints, digital collage
Webpunk
// selection of artworks
// exhibition views
















most pictures above were shot by Yana Franz