Between disintegrating reality and inner escape, Vasil Berela creates an aesthetic of the transcendental moment – a state of suspension in which movement and stillness merge.
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Poster Vasil Berela - Galerie Met
His exhibition "Crash Me, But Gently" at the Met Gallery combines autobiographical fragments with the tensions of a legacy shaped by civil war and survival. At its core are installations that conceptualize the body and consciousness as fragile, vulnerable systems: from a lifeless body next to Descartes' "dream dog" to a mailbox as a repository of external inscriptions to allusions to Kafka's "penal colony."
Berela's visual language oscillates between violence and tenderness, horror and sublimity – inspired in part by Lars von Trier's dark cinematic worlds.
Born in Gori, Georgia, Berela grew up in a post-Soviet reality of anarchy, destruction, and war before fleeing to Germany in 2008. He has lived in Berlin since 2011 and is developing an art that visualizes withdrawal and permeability, trauma and transcendence as fundamental conditions of human existence.
- Artist: Vasil Berela
- Curator: Dr. Luisa Seipp
