The point of departure for the exhibition Details comes from Rastko Močnik’s collection of texts entitled How much fascism?, published in 1995. The basic postulate uttered by Močnik still remains – the question is not “fascism – yes or no?” but “how much fascism?”

Obviously, open manifestations of fascism are fairly easy to recognize (in as much as there are more and more of them), but the exhibition proposes to turn our attention to the silent fascism that is becoming normalized through the systematic violence seeping into the laws and everyday administration practices of the nation-states, and to assess mechanisms of oppression and various symptoms of contemporary fascism presented as unavoidable, pragmatic necessities. In other words, we have to look at the details.

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A publication documenting the project and including essays by Tamás Gáspár Miklós, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, Hito Steyerl, Lene Berg and WHW could be found on the link.