Sadly, our world has developed into such an unhappy place that we have come to regard the differences that we share as more a threat than a cause for celebration and, in the process, our many similarities have been almost completely submerged. We all have the capacity to be positive and negative, to be open or closed in our attitudes to the world. The choice is ours. Contemporary art, if it is any good, respects no limits and may touch on all our experiences and emotions. Because it is both separate and distanced from politics and everyday life, there is no real risk in opening ourselves to its complex and at times ambiguous suggestions. But still we hold back.
Culture, a floating mosaic
"It is a pernicious and relatively recent idea that cultures can
be separated from each other; that they are hermetic, even pure. In
fact, the reverse is true."
