‘WHAT CAN GO WRONG’
Latvian Pavillian at 57th Biennale
Miķelis Fišers
'The title What Can Go Wrong can be interpreted in various ways—surprise, question, or history. This ambiguity highlights an issue that concerns contemporary projects: how do we talk about our time? In what language? Miķelis Fišers chooses the language of the renegade, a marginal discourse full of unscientific bodies and substances – Grays, Egregores, Secret Governments. Of all bodies of knowledge, he chooses knowledge without status. As Barthes writes, science (knowledge) is not defined by content or morality today; science is what is taught. Contemporary art has its own scientificity, which helps differentiate it from something else. In terms of Fišers’ art, it generally doesn’t help. Fišers is convinced that life is squandered and uses esoteric master signifiers to show it.’
"Fišers, by contemplating the new age, offers horrific figurative dystopias'
'[his] art reminds us of Vassily Kandinsky's confidence, a hundred years ago. Kandinsky abandoned narrative and created abstraction, which, in his view, reflected the transition from old materialism to new spirituality.
His illustrations are carved onto a black board, where the simplicity is accentuate by the choice of a black background to connote mystery, elegance, evil and death.
- There is quite a current trend in popular culture for mythical and unscientific bodies/ creatures
- this plays into the motivations to explore our current social and political climate through such figures
- Rick and Morty / Star Wars / Marvel super heroes - all embody this idea of communicating strong messages through sci-fi esque mediums
As such, this element of a dystopian world, explored through such figures in a sort of comic book approach, is a relevant design decision for touching on pressing issues.
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