Ray Optics
Travelling light is most often associated with the image of a ray; a linear course that only alters in encounters with matter. A range of optical instruments can be used to break or combine it. Projectors, for example, primarily use convex lenses to cast digitally transmitted images onto a surface. Developed out of a long-term […]
Là où les organes oragent / Where the organs storm
Laura Bottereau & Marine Fiquet, winners of the Mécénat Touraine Entreprises biennial prize, have devised a project for the cccod galleries that builds on and draws inspiration from the complex constellations they have created in the past. Each new installation is based on thorough research, with a particular focus on the history of anatomy. Designed […]
Parasympathies
Parasympathies is a fragmented body of work approaching sympathy’s flip side: not a shared feeling, but a structural condition of proximity, (mis)alignment, and (in)dependence. Through paired “standard” materials, split forms, cinematic frames, and mirrored language, the works stage repetition without resolution, placing constructive and destructive gestures in parallel. A pair closes in on itself as […]
Odesa, Texas Up Close
The exhibition Odesa, Texas: Up Close has opened in Lutsk. It is the second edition of a project dedicated to places that remain with us. This time, however, the curators invite us to look at them more closely. The exhibition explores how memories change over time and why they cannot always be preserved as clear […]
Vase of Hyacinths
Vase of Hyacinths is the first London exhibition by Chilean painter Juan Martinez Macari, following his first major solo exhibition in Chile last year. For Martinez Macari, painting and gardening are parallel, inseparable practices. Over the past nine years, the artist has lived in relative seclusion in Idahue, a rural area approximately two hours south […]
host and distill
Venice is a city suspended between water and air. Its boundaries are constantly reshaped by the tides. Salt permeates brick and stone; mist rises from the lagoon at dawn and slowly dissolves at dusk. Here, matter is never static. It exists in a continuous state of exchange, sedimentation, evaporation, and transformation. Host and Distill begins […]
Augur
A leap – and a void. An augur imagines the future, finding inspiration in the unpredictable gestures of flight. In Steffani Jemison’s expansive exhibition, conditions of endurance and escape are linked in a continuous installation of sound, sculpture, drawing, and video. The idea of moving within conditions of constraint strongly informs the practice of Steffani […]
more-than-cities
The city functions like an overloaded metabolic system. It pulsates with light and the movement of bodies entangled in the infrastructure. Its choreography is dictated by the rhythm of work and the circulation of capital. The cells are exploited. The cells are exhausted. The cells are sick. They do not heal evenly. Some become overgrown, […]
From a Faraway Meadow (Desde un prado lejano)
Through porcelain, María Enríquez shifts elements of the organic—flowers, petals, sprouts—toward a state of permanence. The ephemeral becomes fixed in a material historically linked to delicacy, ornament, and conservation. The installation thus moves between persistence and disappearance, between the desire to preserve and the inescapable awareness of loss. The meadow here appears as a liminal […]
A gentle kiss on a double forehead
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. It does not entail working out a subtext or categorising things to your liking, but persistence in being with what is there. Its significance grows whenever it encounters what has been harmed or deprived of a voice of its own, allowing us to take a pause […]