The exhibition addresses precarious critical, socially produced discourses and their manifestations and conditions of insecurity in the capitalist local and global context. The exhibited works demonstrate the potential of art as politics.

The selected artists explore this territory by using available human and physical resources towards social action for the greater good, with the intention of demonstrating that a more aggressive form of resistance in the work of art is possible. To achieve this, imagination needs to be transformed into “new labor”, but also to come together in new forms of political action in particular and global domains of uncertainty.

"All that we have in common" refers to situations that we all witness and live, and are related to vulnerability and existential insecurity, economic injustices, political manipulations, poor regulation of labor rights, the myth of freedom of speech, conspiracy theories that spread nationalism, exploitation of labor, contemporary racial violence, the struggles of queer movements, the consequences on the psyche and physicality of political "discipline" in different contexts and situations, in Macedonia, the region and in the world. In contrast, the exhibition encourages us to question the way we experience our current situation, to propose scenarios for some new future alliances and free territories and to make us think about how our individual visions, responsibilities and obligations can be socially shared and serve collective goals", state curators Mira Gaqina and Jovanka Popova.

If capitalism inevitably requires a focus on the self, the exhibition asks the following questions: – What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived in terms of diversity as opposed to identity? What are the ways in which solidarity and care for the other can be a point of resistance against the capitalist order? In this sense, the exhibited works explore the connections between solidarity and politics as well as possible viable and positive alternatives for creating new spaces that concern the public through the private, the captive state through everyday action, resulting in new types of associations with new types of organization, structures and institutions.

The main goal of the exhibition is to offer an artistic interpretation of radical leftist policies and practices that embrace the concept of awareness of diversity and solidarity on a local and global level, explored and presented through artistic action.

Works by 11 internationally recognized artists will be exhibited: Francis Alice (Belgium), Marva Arsanios (USA), Sharon Hayes (USA), Arthur Xhafa (USA), Khiva K (Iraq), Jonas Staal (Netherlands), Wu Tsang (USA), Dardan Zhegrova (Kosovo), as well as Macedonian artists Kristina Bozhurska, OPA (Obsessive Possessive Aggression) and Igor Toshevski.

The exhibition is curated by Jovanka Popova and Mira Gaqina

Visual solution design: Neda Firfova

Photo credit: Maya Argakieva

The exhibition is financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of R.N. Macedonia and Tikvesh.