YOU ARE FINALLY AWAKE
Exploration of 'Under the Wobble Moon. Object From the Capricious Age' by Misha Kahn
Are you, by any chance, familiar with the meme series, ‘You’re Finally Awake’?
These memes normally feature photographs of people or animals looking directly at the viewer, captioned with texts implying that they suddenly regained consciousness to find out that the recent years or even their whole lives were a product of their imagination. One of my favourites depicts a group of gorillas staring at the camera. A caption reads:‘ You’re Finally Awake! That fall looked pretty bad. Industrialised society? Humans? What are you talking about? Let’s go eat ants.’(1) I love how these memes can take you outside the familiar timeline, and allow for a glimpse at life in the past while possessing the knowledge of the future. It’s a momentary glitch in the fabric of the humdrum. And that is exactly how the exhibition ‘Under the Wobble Moon: Objects From the Capricious Age’ by Misha Kahn felt like for me.