Dora Budor, Niloufar Emamifar, Annaïk Lou Pitteloud, Georgia Sagri, Gianna Surangkanjanajai, and Sung Tieu
The thematic exhibition Call me gravity explores the concept of debt from various angles — focusing in particular on its impact on bodies and contemporary perceptions. Beyond its economic meaning, debt encompasses social, spatial, historical and emotional dimensions. It manifests concretely in the proliferation of credit lines, but also lurks in what eludes measurement, in what is neither accounted for nor recognised.
Ali Cherri
For the first time, several of Ali Cherri’s (b. 1976, Beirut) major bodies of work are gathered. Spanning audiovisual works, sculpture, watercolour drawings, and installation, the exhibition Soul Witness explores how institutions of power — the nation-state, the military and even the museum — shape the ways history is constructed and remembered.
Opening: Ali Cherri - Soul Witness
Join us for the festive opening of the exhibition Soul Witness by Ali Cherri, bringing together several of the artist’s major bodies of work for the first time.
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Within the framework of the exhibition Call me gravity, Miriam Stoney performs Ununits of Gravitas.
Ununits of Gravitas is part of the broader project of Research (London, Paris, Vienna), an ongoing performance revolving around one central question: how do cultural representations intersect with histories of measurement, the symbolism of weight and gravity, and the belief in commensurability that underlies concepts of exchange and debt?
And in doing so, how might aesthetics, poetics, and desire conspire to produce history in ways that are not positivist, but intuitive?
The resulting performance questions how meaning is constructed, displayed, and made legitimate, staging the production of non-knowledge. Through an investigative yet deliberately non-scientific approach, it opens up an affective, “reparative” mode of engagement with history, where uncertainty becomes not a limit, but a method.