Chance, chaos and catharsis entails our existence. Each element in its hidden or apparent form, traces the unique synchronicity between them. Artists, philosophers and scientists are constantly unveiling this trigonal relationship. The exhibition Chance, Chaos, Catharsis, proposes to rediscover these theories from our everyday experiences as language, ideologies and formations. As disparate as the title, the exhibition aims to critically examine the contrasting conditions surrounding us woven by the element of chance or chaos that transforms the sterile into an experiential existence.

It presents artists that intermingle these complex nuances with the ease of the mundane using materials, objects, sounds, narrations and abstractions that directly reflect the banal repetitiveness. Redefining the identity of the 'everyday' the artists construct, weave, reuse, carve and assemble a language and form that has layers of visual cognizance, memory and experience. The formal elements remain intact but the compositional framework transforms to echo the interdependency of chance, chaos and catharsis.

As part of the curatorial display, diverse texts have been interspersed that directly-indirectly relate to this parody. A selection of three sixty five pages from twenty four books are all reordered in a non-linear manner to form a set of twelve books, each relating to a month. Adapting from the combined formations of I-Ching Hexagrams and chance aesthetics followed by John Cage, each book seems confused and yet entails a certain order of chance, reason and intuition. A sound piece too intersperses within the sterile ambience that randomly stirs the viewer with varying distorting and musical sounds, recomposed following the rhythm of chance.

Jesal Thacker