“Monoculture: A Recent History”
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (M HKA)
It is somewhat ironic to have to speak in brief about the prodigious new exhibition “Monoculture: A Recent History,” organized by M HKA associate director Nav Haq. One could see the show as a reflection on the simplification society—simplistic society, even—in which we now live, an era where rash judgments reign. It is as if there were a systemic resistance to grasping the world’s complexity, even though we’ve never had such a clear image of it. The exhibition suggests that our current reality, far from being holistic, is structured by various factions of thought. Each is entrenched in its