This is an exhibition that literally gets under our skin. There is chaos, there is life, there is recognition and also the opposite – complete alienation and abstraction. Photographs and painted photographs in black, pink and white, reflect on the relationship of the flesh to sex, shame, the body as well as on the limits of civilized man.

Homo Carnõsa – we still have chaos in us.

"We still have chaos in us" is a paraphrase of Nietzsche's text in the book "Thus spoke Zarathustra" where he writes: "I tell you: You must have chaos in you to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: You have chaos in you.

”Signe Vad's exhibition Homo Carnõsa is an extension of a trilogy of exhibitions that she worked on during the period 2013 – 2015 and which, among other things, alluded to Nietzsche's statement about chaos. The first exhibition was entitled "Once we were all crazy", the second was entitled "We have invented happiness" and the third title in the exhibition trilogy was "We have chaos in us"."You and me – our material, the most natural thing in the world. Are you your body? Alienation is a precise way of describing the contemporary relation to human flesh and blood. Either we want to study the body or we want to alter, control and conquer it.

We are creators! And we try to recreate ourselves by alienating our basic flesh. But we cannot escape who we are Homo Carnõsa – the human of flesh."(Sige Vad)

Homo Carnõsa is about the human flesh. Everything is flesh, bodies are like natural landscapes that can be erotic, sensitive, swollen, vulgar, gloomy, beautiful and ugly at the same time. We are often ambivalent about our own bodies and our carnality. 

This is an exhibition that literally gets under our skin. There is chaos, there is life, there is recognition and also the opposite – complete alienation and abstraction. Photographs and painted photographs in black, pink and white, reflect on the relationship of the flesh to sex, shame, body as well as on the limits of the civilized and controlled man. About our alienated attitude to the corporeal.