Referencing non-duality, folklore and the unseen, the show brings together the practices of eight international artists who negotiate these tensions through a shared connection with the elemental, within an intentional, often self-referential structure set free by an openness to what is unknowable.

In today’s hyper-accelerated, post-truth environment, marked by extreme polarisation, pervasive uncertainty and ecological precarity, the exhibition casts light on the emergence of counter tendencies to bring things back to balance:
softness in response to aggression; simplicity in response to excess; restraint in response to the drive for insatiable growth; introspection in response to constant connectivity; but also willingness to seek understanding beyond human intelligence, learn from the natural cycles and access alternative forms of wisdom and consciousness.

This is not a proposal for escapism through distraction, detachment or reactionary nostalgia. In line with Heraclitus’s concept of ‘palíntropos harmonîe’, at a time where finding an anchor and grounding feels imperative, the exhibition posits a path forward through acceptance of opposites and the dynamic process of change which is essential for sameness to exist.

Presenting work by:

Bárbara Alegre
Irini Bachlitzanaki
Jana Emburey
Jonathan Kelly
Alice Kemp
Yuichiro Kikuma
Danae Patsalou
Yelena Popova