SUBLIMATION — THE FATE OF THE MODERN SUBJECT

Open lecture, Part of the public program “New Spirituality”, Future Generation Art Prize 2021.
PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine

The concept of sublimation entices us with the promise of liberation from the frustrations of the body and the path to freedom of the spirit. However, the images of this liberation have changed throughout history along with culture. In his lecture, Harri Kraievets travels from the Baroque to the Postmodern to capture the transformation of the concept and clarify its original meaning. Sublimation is always a scene of two, says the lecturer, and offers us to find out what motives lead the modern subject to this scene, and what role the artist plays in it.