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I KNOW NOTHING, BUT I FEEL EVERYTHING 

                                                                          ABOUT

 

                                                                                                         Simmering in the mind and guts,

                                                                   research and practice topics by Artist duo Hasaj-Gelain

more than other times, also through the artistic practice-

Less recent, closer and ever-constant events have given us the fervor 

and urgency to reiterate and discuss of dynamics of misconceptions, 

hypocritical phenomena, unstable conventions, that outline our species.

Through critical thinking and reflection, self-analysis and self-awareness, resources such as altruism and empathic

understanding, we support an ubiquitous intuition based on micro-macro approach to perceive radically and more

deeply rooted patterns, and not to fall for empty rhetoric, rely on unfounded opinion and support blunders.

In the following, there is not only information about activities and projects in the coming years,

but you will also be able to briefly navigate on what is bubbling in the minds and entrails of the artists,

and that will guide them in their work, research and expression.

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What if we are stacking up empty beliefs and hypocritical hopes, obtusely shaping ever more vertiginous spires heedless of the structure we blindly rely on, deceiving ourselves by our innate nature that dazzles us to the collapsing foundations.

An imperative that sustains itself -even- to our innermost core. And perhaps it is from here that we must (re)start, from the individual nucleus.

Without hesitation, without excuses, otherwise let’s be silent in front of this circle we call destiny and everything we’re dragging along with us. Or is it not possible to do otherwise, surrendering to the insurmountable limits of the human being?

However, in the presumed drift, with frankness and simple instinct there are those who try to introject that endless ocean... and cannot, do not want to, do otherwise... so why not try?​ A need that faith cannot contain and through which no one can escort you.

Even if explored, eviscerated in all its parts, has it really been understood? If so, would we still be at this point?

If you can feel, think, discuss, visualise something, does that mean it can exist? Is conception reality?

In an attempt to investigate and enquire ourselves, we begin to shatter our reflection to get a full and authentic vision of what we are not... but nevertheless what we could be. What could be.

Examining phenomena at the very beginning of all of us, and more, probing those aforementioned fragments in order to recompose and unveil (pre-)existing dynamics, reuniting us with naked and authentic perception.

Probably, evidence that self-cancels before our understanding, but no less true for that; certainly more reliable than misrepresentations we impose on ourselves in order to move forward on our own terms.

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With these considerations and premises, we present not only our work, but profoundly ourselves. Us, who like so many others seem in a bubble of indifference, stuck in the current. Incomplete and limited, but humble and sincere, in reality they flow in an overwhelming awareness. A complexity that invests and ‘alters’, vastness that exists far beyond their faculties.

Try to transfigure in this dimension what we perceive: investigating-us, translating-us and sharing-us through artistic practice. Code closer to the 'line' of (our) -human- possibilities.

Randomness has given us that to understand and navigate the illusory maze; artistic creativity is our viaticum.

Multi and cross-disciplinary research and practice that approaches an existential and introspective path.

We support that the most honest action one can take for radical change is personal revolution… probably the only thing really in our power.

Through investigation-introspection, our work is essentially sharing our own questions, reflections and discoveries, trying to negotiate with the tangible and compromise as little as possible with issues that invariably deform a more conscious and unanimous vision. Self-analysis in response to a radical collective turn.

Precisely for this reason, through our projects and how we address issues, we do not set aside the universal contact, which precisely with its timelessness becomes extremely topical. Attention must not be distracted from the fundamentals, encouraging a constant micro-macro approach and comparison.

Does it seem wise to proceed under the herald of progress, when there are still controversial and unavoidable aspects behind us? Or rather, in the corner? 

 

Are we voluntarily wearing blinkers, or is that really all it is: insurmountable limits?

Juxtaposing the usual surreal-poetic language and (perhaps foolish) confident perseverance, we will continue our way and exploration, likely introducing more pungent flavours... but revealing a mature, growing aftertaste.

Exploring new vistas and alternative narratives to deal with current dynamics that can be traced back to encestrality, and which may suggest what to expect on the event horizon.

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Let’s bring our attention and effort to facts that lead to asynchrony between will and awareness, between character flaw and biological processes, to the point of forming collective thinking and judgement.

Focus carefully on the contradictions that govern us and that we feed on.

Producing statements seems simple and obvious, even obligatory and almost forced... useful and right that it is, or that it is not, an opinion is a serious matter and a great responsibility. Especially considering the communicative narrowness we rely on and leave our understanding and perception of things.

If by chance and luck you manage to express a concept decently, you will inevitably isolate it and take away attention from the rest.´Rest´which however exists, works and is interconnected.

Therefore, keep this in mind when getting discouraged with the noema in our throats. We must recognise the limits of the means we rely on, sometimes totally, and understand their partiality and incompleteness.

As in 'taking a position' — some principles may simply not align and be absorbed into today’s status quo and main stream.

By appearing in an elsewhere of indifference, actually counterbalancing, someone can be tremendously aware. Too many times one finds oneself daydreaming in a desperate change of scenery.

THUS...

We want to contribute, in the clearest possible terms, through who we are.

We believe that ‘visualization’ is a valid tool to accompany abstract thinking and introspection, areas often felt as hostile and foggy.

In this case, as artists -primarily- visual, we feel that the most valid, sincere and resonant contribution we can share is precisely the visual, narrative and sensory-intellectual manifestation.

How art supports us, guides us, stimulates us, makes us escape and find ourselves, keeps us with our feet firm but suspended… perhaps it is the same for others too. And in the worst-case scenario, by following talent and our own resources, at least we would have been original not only to ourselves and shared something authentic, intact, which modestly can gratify this ´crossing´, encountering the immeasurable.

Therefore, it is always worth it.

Thoughts & statement by artist duo Hasaj-Gelain, 2025

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