GOLDEN BOUNDARIES
2017 - 2018 , Mexico
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Youth is regarded as a stage of psychological development as well as a social category framed by social institutions and rituals. Social representation plays a more important part in this than in any other preceding or following life stages: in accordance with the peculiar clothing, the manner of speaking, taste in music, or elements expressing which subculture one belongs to, young people assemble and reassemble stylistic elements of various origins – sometimes consciously, other times merely following role models. This exhibition explores the different manifestations of self-expression, the search for personal autonomy and cultural diversity, the relative separation and the temporary, ad hoc togetherness of adolescence and young adulthood, as well as the so-called maps of meaning, through which the individual becomes a social being. It examines whether there are different forms of empowering and self-awareness, or if there is a gender-focused account of this new individualism. The images on display also seek to answer in what ways the anxiety, the aesthetics of “nothing doing,” and the search for a meaning are coded.