Océane Bruel & Dylan Ray Arnold at Lämpimästi: Swallowed Rooms.
There’s a peculiar sensation that arises only in certain moments: when you enter a room that doesn’t belong to you, but feels eerily familiar. A spoon left askew, light catching on a glossy surface, the muffled pulse of a pipe behind the wall. Georges Perec wrote that to live is to move from one space […]
What Remains of the Gesture: Fables, Algorithms, and the Melancholy of the Mechanical. Ryan Gander at Basament, Roma
“We are what we repeatedly do,” Aristotle once said. But in a time when repetition is dictated more by algorithms than habits, what exactly are we becoming?” As we descend into Basement Roma, tucked beneath the streets of Rome, the mood quickly shifts from the ancient grandeur of the city above to the unsettling hum […]
Art After the Click: From Presence to Post-Production
Unseen Art: The Birth of Mediation Art, in its most mythological conception, was born to be seen. And yet, for over a century now, what we consume, more frequently and more widely, is no longer the artwork itself, but its image. Photography, introduced in the 19th century as a documentary tool, soon evolved into an […]