In The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion explores the space between grief and reason, where the mind clings to impossible possibilities and reality becomes porous. Magical thinking, in this sense, becomes an act of survival - a way to navigate personal and collective upheaval. This exhibition borrows from Didion’s notion of magical thinking, but extends it beyond mourning, into the realm of creative imagination, myth-making, and resistance.
Fifty Years of Magical Thinking explores how artists from the 1960s through the 2000s, an era marked by profound transformation, dealt with political shifts, globalization, and evolving artistic vocabularies. Across these decades, artists engaged in their own forms of magical thinking, conjuring new ways of reckoning with a changing world.
In this space, magical thinking is not delusion - it is a method to reimagine the world anew.