No Rest for the Wicked is a curatorial project presented at ArtInternational in Istanbul by Lanfranco Aceti, which showcases recent artworks by Bill Balaskas as well as a series of exhibitions and art projects developed by MoCC (Museum of Contemporary Cuts) since 2012. In the exhibition, Balaskas continues his investigation into utopianism, a concept that has informed his practice ever since the outbreak of the global economic crisis. In his most recent work, Ou la mort (2014), a modified French typewriter from the late 1960s is transformed from an object of everyday use into a symbolic gesture that appears to question the universality of Enlightenment’s principles and their continuity to the present day. This dialogue with the historical precedence of social upheaval is also evident in Re: Evolution (2013), an imaginary flag that combines the design of a computer with the symbols of communism and the Soviet flag. Finally, the constantly flashing question “Is this ever going to end?” of the website www.thisisnevergoingtoend.com (2013), is indicative of the artist’s poignant, yet humorous visual language, which invites us to rethink determinism at a time of rapid social, political, economic and cultural transformation catalyzed by new media technologies.
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