The Brazilian Pavilion and the Danger of Playing It Safe
The Brazilian Pavilion and the Danger of Playing It Safe Rachel Cecília de Oliveira and Flávia Virgínia from pó de crítica Published 07/10/2026 Rachel Cecília de Oliveira and Flávia Virgínia from pó de crítica Published 07/10/2026 Originally published in pó de crítica in Portuguese on 19 August 2026 under the […]
Infrastructures of Imagination
What should guide us in a world whose workings are increasingly difficult to overlook, yet ever more difficult to understand? Everyday experience is progressively shaped by technological systems and media environments whose mechanisms and vested interests remain largely concealed. What reaches us is determined not only by algorithms that filter information, recommend content, and anticipate […]
You can’t return, you are here
You can’t return, you are here. This simple sentence contains a paradox within itself. It permeates not only the entire exhibition, but its very origin. You cannot return, because what you are returning to is already in front of you. The past reappears again and again in gestures, looks, and objects. The past is not […]
HOT MILK
What if milk were an inexhaustible resource we could all feed from together? What if care were given freely, with responsibility shared? What if we freed ourselves from expectations passed down through generations, allowing ourselves to become unruly and childlike? If we were no longer pressured to produce, reproduce, and perform, who would we become? […]
Arriving, Leaving
In her latest painting series, Julia Platt confronts her past and the difficult passage into adulthood, shaped by her mother’s long, incurable illness. Being caught in loops of time, attached to the same objects from the past and returning to them again and again, no longer brings comfort; instead, it gives rise to anxiety and […]
Last Night and Today
Sitting on the bus chewing gum. A mood & attention boosting oral fidgeting strategy which provides increased blood flow, alertness, stress relief. A pure, mindless way to ossify time. And I’ve got lots of that. I’m on the way to quit my job. I made up my mind after receiving this email: “Are you out […]
Liberalism
Sean Crossley’s Liberalism transforms the logos of political parties into large-scale, two-by-two-metre paintings, asking what becomes possible when images designed for instant recognition are remade in a medium whose purpose is not communication, but attention. Ask ten people what “liberal” means and you may get ten different answers. At its root, the word points to […]
A Charm of Powerful Trouble
Hey sweetie..! You won’t believe what I’m about to tell you… Let me guide you through broken narratives, unstable images and intimate gestures. As you enter the realm of soft murmurs, powerful trouble begins to unfold. Here, where illicit knowledge travels between lips. Morphed by each tongue, it becomes something that holds us together. A […]
Escalator
When Jesse sent me his notes for this exhibition, the first thing he shared was, “This is a show for dark times.” And when someone who is as cordial, compassionate, and complicated as Jesse sends you something as heavy as that, your initial response likely ought to be to sit with the statement, at least […]
Kinetic Syntax
Kinetic Syntax brings together a set of practices that explore the relationship between gesture, sign, matter, and system, placing itself in a shared territory between drawing, writing, sculpture, and visual notation. Through a variety of media—painting, drawing, ceramics, textiles, or installation—the works in the exhibition investigate how forms can operate as units of meaning: marks, […]