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Exhibition deals with socialization and the current state of people and behavior

DUBAI.- THE STATE presents a group exhibition opening on November 10th at Traffic, which takes its title from the book ‘The Coming Insurrection’ (2007) by The Invisible Committee. The show is a continuation of ‘THE STATE’, a socio- historical journal & forum, and a symbolic transition from the last exhibition ‘Social/Antisocial?’, which dealt with socialization and the current state of people and behavior. The exhibition is a response to the causes of discontent, namely mass injustice, corruption and greed in our societies and world at large. It calls for a paradigm shift of human expression, to prevent an emerging social condition. It is not a call to arms but an attempt to get people thinking about the global transmutation that surrounds them. The Invisible Committee is the collective pen-name for a small group of French post- Situationist intellectuals and academics, who in 2007 authored The C