MENTAL DIVERSION
1990 -2025

The works exhibited in the exhibition have been started since 1990 and will be completed in
2025. Despite the time window of activity, the exhibition is exceptionally topical in terms of
the author's creative thinking, special situations require extraordinary measures. The works
have acquired their relevance precisely now, when reality has caught up with the artistic
vision of years ago. Large-scale graphic works contain recognizable names, places and
messages, three-dimensional military compositions take us to the theater of war, video works
from the last banned street performances in China and from the coronation celebrations of the
new American president in Manhattan, New York.
The opening will feature a performance by the performance group "Antibody Corporation"
from Chicago.
Al Paldrok: “Experience, memory and imagination are qualitatively equal in our
consciousness; we may be equally moved by something evoked by our memory or
imagination as by an actual experience. Our imagination creates images and emotions that are
as true as the actual encounters of life.”
“Al Paldrok alias Anonymous Boh, via non-stop world tours, performances, exhibitions, and
publications, has created one of the most representative, significant, timely and

transformative art movements in all of history. As Ring Master, Paldrok has become the Wild
Bill Hickok, the P.T. Barnum, the Alfred Jarry, the Tristan Tzara, the Ezra Pound, the
Orson Welles of our Era. We have entered The Apocalypse, The Storm. Boh, implementing
all The Arts via NON GRATA’S Diverse Universe global performances, reveals to us not
only where we presently stand in The Storm but he also conjures visions of our soon to be
realized post-apocalyptic absurdly playfully tormented kaleidoscopic landscapes.
                                                                     Ron Whitehead, Outlaw Poet

“Al is a grizzly bear with a chain saw in a jack in the box. As dangerous and amusing as that
sounds, he’s unpredictable, boundless and one step ahead of all who surround him. His
stories are real, his madness is real. Just grab hold and enjoy the ride, this journey has many
twists and turns and sometimes there are no roads.”
                                                              Andy Cook, Musician and publisher

By obtaining its reputation as an alternative, Boh, has swooped onto the global art landscape
without looking back. Performances, art tours organized in tens of cities across Europe, Asia
and America have turned the notoriously alternative Non Grata into a creative collective who
are much better known elsewhere than in Estonia. Their experience is not a subject much
talked about, although artistic activity transcending boundaries of art and countries is today’s
artist’s most desirable self- realization. Estonian Anonymous Boh (Al Paldrok) has been
active from 1992 on a frameless territory where an art object has seized to exist as a physical
piece. The space has many dimensions upon which the activity has been built. Running the
performance group Non Grata actually means creating a certain kind of school, Art of The
Invisibles, which can be characterized by features as structured chaos, performances in
arbitrary environments and interiors.
                                                                                 Raivo Kelomees