opening 14 May, 7pm

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Obelus 1
Forster Str. 49

10999 Berlin DE

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"Why would you refuse a person or an institution, the reparative imperative bleats, the opportunity to improve, to learn and do better, to fix things? To put it more bluntly, the willingness to sacrifice oneself in the reparative process is one of [systemic logics'] most potent moralizing, power-­wielding tools. And for these reasons, repair may not only operate as an accountability dodge but, also, and especially, as a reenveloping entrapment that compels us to remain within abusive [bonds] and keep desiring what is actually an obstacle to our florishing. The reparative, we might say, is more interested in “working through” the injury in the hope that the reality and impact of violence disappear. In contrast, [this exigency] works toward the surfacing of friction; it keeps at the wound, refusing the illusory promises of repair, and, in this regard, we may think of [this exigency] as a traumatophilic force.”

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(A. Saketopoulou, Exigent Sadism, in Social Text 166, Vol. 44 No. 1, March 2026)

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