Backseat Dreamer
Back Seat Dreamer “Every once in a while I dream of driving a car but I’m confined to the backseat. I try to reach the steering wheel and pedals, but to no avail. I haven’t driven a car for over twenty years and it shows. I wake up and switch on my computer. In live […]
La primera vez era ya una repetición (Even the first time was a repetition)
What slips past us in daily life can, on closer inspection, open into something altogether different. For Fermín Jiménez Landa, this act of looking again is not a minor adjustment but the very core of his practice. La primera vez era ya una repetición (Even the First Time Was a Repetition) unfolds subtle ruptures in […]
When I take a hint, I take it pretty hard
Emily Cooper is pleased to present “When I take a hint, I take it pretty hard”, a selection of works from UK artist Ryan Gander’s Phantom Ambition series. Initially exhibited earlier this year at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Helga de Alvear, this marks the first UK presentation of Gander’s most recent speculative exhibition posters and […]
MESH & MAYHEM
Talal Al Najjar’s Mesh & Mayhem, curated by Salem AlSuwaidi, unravels a terrain where digital architectures and localized memory entwine, forming a fabric stretched thin across speculative futures and fractured realities. The exhibition confronts the way simulation infiltrates geography and biology—where the mesh becomes both structure and rupture, at once a connective tissue and a […]
Mute Track
We first got to know the work of Bianca Hlywa, a Canadian artist based in London, in 2019, before the pandemic and even before we opened Atoi. Bianca was already at that time working with SCOBY—an acronym for Symbiotic Culture Of Bacteria and Yeast—commonly known as kombucha fungus, a probiotic drink that has become popular […]
this hum is a tonal sigh II
benjamin schoones places self-produced, sometimes modified or ready-made objects in constellations that nest to their given architecture. Chosen off-the-shelf parts are often linked to distribution and manufacturing processes that may have eventually been rendered obsolete. These works are sometimes supported by sounds & written gestures. Instead of following a fixated argument, it tends more toward […]
Abrupt
A sudden break. A moment that never had the chance to finish, already turning into memory. Abrupt brings together two artists — Konrad Krzyżanowski and Andrii Rachynskyi — in a space where the image doesn’t narrate so much as reverberate, like an echo. It speaks of what slips away, of an event that leaves only […]
Preliminary Materials for a Neurogenesis of the Young-Girl
Preliminary Materials for a Neurogenesis of the Young-Girl is a project by Szilvia Bolla conceived and developed over the course of Bolla’s month-long residency at lower_cavity. Expanding on the artist’s central preoccupations with convergences of body, mind, affective labor, and psychopharmacology as constructed within neoliberal systems, the suite of works explores non-normative perceptions of temporality […]
RELIQUIAE
Galleria Doris Ghetta and Catinca Tabacaru Gallery are pleased to announce Reliquiae, the first solo exhibition in Milan by Nona Inescu. The term Reliquiae carries a double resonance: on the one hand, fragments of the body turned into relics; on the other, archaeological remains resurfacing as testimonies of the past. Inescu explores this tension through […]
Samuel Henne – untitled (note to self)
Samuel Henne – untitled (note to self) “untitled (note to self)” uses fragmentary text images to explore aspects that oscillate between self-talk, confrontation, mantra, and cautionary plea. Among other things, the work addresses the construction of identity and refers to the idea of the “self as other” as well as questions of perception, reality, and […]