Unseen Users
“People are not Google’s ‘customers’ or even Google’s ‘users’, but its feudal livestock.” — Bruce Sterling, The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things
The World Rolled off His Tongue
The World Rolled off His Tongue is the solo exhibition by Singaporean artist-curator Zulkhairi Zulkiflee. The exhibition title is inspired by a collage the artist made in 2024, which serves as a metaphorical nudge to the Malay-Singaporean slang term “world.” The English word, through a semantic shift, illustrates a conversational penchant that captures risible histrionics […]
Go
The Go Protocol by Perce Jerrom involves preparing an individual survival kit designed to sustain someone outside their home for 72 hours in case of emergency. For his exhibition at Friends and Family, the artist invited the three curators of the space to create their own kits.
I SECRETLY LOVE EVERYONE
Falling in love is a tender, secretive and overwhelming process. As human beings, we share similar bodies, needs, fears, and desires. We live within the same ecological systems and depend on other species.In a thriving community, connection spreads almost quietly, without asking for permission. At times, love is kept private because it exposes us. It […]
Red Threads
What does normative society deem worth remembering and what is left to slowly fade away? How does ideology permeate everyday practices and how do communities hold onto their sense of identity, memory and solidarity? Red Threads: Following stories beyond the paper confronts the archive as a site of obfuscation and silence of marginal and oppressed […]
Fall
Titled Fall, a word whose meaning slips from seasonality to the physical pull of gravity, Océane Bruel’s exhibition draws on the resonances between cultivation cycles, sculptural processes, and the lived experience of chronic illness. With a material and spatial approach she develops a sculptural language that invites attention and haptic perception. Rooted in everyday-life her […]
BIGOTRY IN EVOLUTION
Bigotry in Evolution is an exhibition by Matteo De Caminada, first presented at Kleine Galerie Bozen, that confronts the contemporary resurgence of bigotry as a global, evolving force. Across continents, reactionary ideologies are no longer fringe; they are reorganising themselves, gaining power, and reshaping public life.What we are witnessing is not a return to the […]
The Blind Man
Andreea Anghel’s exhibition “The Blind Man” treats the archive as a living, creative process. Its title alludes to the 1917 Dadaist magazine “The Blind Man”, founded in New York by Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché and Beatrice Wood. Yet the exhibition is not a continuation of Dadaism. Anghel does not quote history; instead, she draws on […]
COMPANION
…I want to be as good a companion as marigolds are… Bogna Luiza Wisniewska (b. 1988, she/her) is a soft-hearted person who lives and works in Helsinki. She works with painting, ceramics, textiles, installation, and gardening. Her practice is rooted in care, fragility, and queerness, often using the garden as a lens to explore creation […]
ÆTHER
Adjust, arrange, divert, combine. Gesture after gesture, forms emerge. Ephemeral and composite, between recovery and intuition. They draw on what is there: gathered objects, everyday materials, available fragments. A shiver runs through the matter, a subtle vibration. Motifs appear, layer upon layer, Recurring, cyclical, assembled. Like memories that insist, persist. Fragile compositions that activate a […]