You Are Not One Of Us So You Are One Of Us: Memed Erdener

Thoughts drifting between a baby and a post-historical machine. The pre-linguistic, wordless phase of a baby, and the claim that the end of history will be marked by silence. Wordlessness at the beginning, silence at the end. Memed Erdener's solo exhibition, You Are Not One Of Us So You Are One Of Us, will be on display at Zilberman Dialogues. The exhibition will be on view from May 27 to July 26, 2025.

Otherness has been wiped off the face of the Earth. There is no outside anymore. With the inclusion of the outside in the inside, the borders of the inside have been erased. The desire for recognition has cancelled itself, since there is no one left to recognize. What has emerged is not unity within multiplicity, but sameness amidst a lack of difference. The human being is no longer that historical creature struggling between the master and the slave. The human being has become neither transformative will, nor an object in transformation. The human being, creating no conflict, posing no threat, and engendering no thought, has also failed to return to nature. At the end of history, the post-historical human being has become a machine that no longer produces meaning, and has abandoned its desire for recognition. The human being is no longer the subject of nature, nor the creator of culture. The human being has been merely reduced to a living organism. Alas, the end of history has revealed itself in silence.

*This text was inspired by Alexandre Kojève’s thoughts.