Bruise, Shine on My Skin
The exhibition by Joanna Fluder at the Polana Institute is a strongly personal narrative about domestic violence, told from the perspective of the skin—or rather, through the wide range of bruises appearing on the body. While understood as a symptom of healing—the gradual resorption of blood diffused within the subcutaneous tissue—they also follow a distinct […]
MEDIA SWAMP: New Media in the South
Media Swamp: New Media in the South brings together artists whose practices move through the South. The Media Swamp functions here as both geography and metaphor—across video projections, physical media installations, and a screening room of looping single-channel works. The exhibition unfolds as an immersive environment where time-based and computational processes echo throughout the gallery. […]
Shimmer
Invitation to Contribute Dear Mr Thackway, My name is Dr Stephan Vliperdius. I am a partner and senior researcher at The International Institute of Time, Frequency and Cognition, a developmental research laboratory based in Corripo, Switzerland. It is my pleasure to contact you with an urgent invitation, even though it may surprise you to receive […]
INSIDE EMPIRE
INSIDE EMPIRE opens portals to other worlds. Mythical figures take on a fluid presence all their own. Vessels, mirrors, beings, and symbols interact with one another, forming a realm where the boundaries between reality and illusion blur. What initially seems familiar shifts: bodies become projections, objects become actors, the space itself becomes an interlocutor, and […]
TASON-KULKIJA
There are transitions that do not follow familiar directions or time, but occur between layers, surfaces, and intuitions. Tason-kulkija is composed of paintings and sculptural elements that move within these in-between spaces. The works observe the connections through which we move between different planes, detaching and returning, often without noticing. A fictional perspective runs through […]
A Corpo Torto
Voids, transparencies and reflections, burns. Forms of an exposed body, a twisted body offered up to the world. Nicolò Cecchella’s work stems from the perception of a reality now reduced to tatters, from which he gathers traces and fragments and fuses into the dense, living matter of things. An open brass head revealing its soul […]
Side Quest
Secondary missions, side quests, games are riddled with them: players can indulge in the leisurely collection of shimmering stars or opt for the systematic smashing of sturdy crates. In the world of video games, this term refers to all the secondary missions which, while they do not directly advance the game’s progress, nevertheless allow for […]
The Death of the Avatar
You lift your head from your smartphone. You feel that something is missing. Your skin is where it should be, your memory seems intact — and yet, something is off. What happened to that photo from your 2013 holiday, taken by your best friend at the time? You can’t find the post you shared when […]
Sun’s show
“Last night a moon came out She replaced my eyes She said your plans undermined you Until the shadow rings the bell You’ll only see behind you” (Tom Verlaine, Last Night, 1979) Sometimes a painting begins in the act of seeing. Or just after, as an afterimage—the persistent glow that remains when the eyes close […]
TIME and CREATURE
Rusto Myllylahti is an artist who works with installation, sound, image, performance, and objects. Joy, freeform, and juxtapositions of meaning are at the center of their artistic production. The exhibition showcases an installation of masks and distortion, a warped dry spa of sorts. Sini Silveri is a multidisciplinary poet, whose work traces the quirks in […]