The theme of Motif: Amalan at ARTJOG 2025 concludes the two preceding editions of the exhibition.
Motif: Lamaran (2023) explored the relationship of equality and reciprocity between the invited and the inviting subjects, while Motif: Ramalan (2024) sought to explore artists’ imaginations of the future. This year's motif is a reading of artistic practice between the tensions of the autonomous and heteronomous world, between one and many norms. The autonomy of art includes three things: the autonomy of the artist, the autonomy of the art world and the autonomy of the artwork. However, when faced with the question of function in artworks, the view on all autonomy in the art world becomes highly relative. When an artwork is in the autonomous arena, then the selfless attitude, for example, becomes a 'symbolic profit', and the aesthetic moment transforms into an object of commodification.
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