Detail: The exhibition works from the perspective of the current critical moment in the world, with its generalised loss of confidence in the ideals and certainties of Western liberal democracy that have shaped globalisation in the previous decades. Across the region, as well as in the West’s centres of power, alternatives and challenges to the liberal consensus are being unfolded, often based on various attempts to create parallel narratives to Western modernity. The arising question is, what comes after the loss of this unifying ideal that drove our world over the past decades? What, if anything, should still be defended from it? Contemporary art has been a privileged expression of that globalising drive, often serving it rather paradoxically through essentialising regional shows, something this exhibition decidedly rejects. As the breakdown in the unity of ideals that lead to globalisation is challenging the basis of a common ground for contemporary art, the exhibition wonders how other shared premises could be negotiated. How can an aesthetic basis for the language of contemporary art be accepted if the ideological bases of contemporary art are crumbling? How can positions that claim disparate and conflicting genealogies sit together in a shared exhibition space?