Mountains and holes cover an Anthropocenic landscape. Decomposed bodies. Fragmented images. The mutable materials presented at the Tensions of Opposites exhibition become traces of a world in which stability exists only as a fleeting moment. What may seem solid is really just a knot in the web of constant transformation. Every form carries within its own dissolution and the potential for its recombination.

The exhibition develops from a processual understanding of reality in which bodies, images, materials and environments are not separate entities, but temporary constellations of relations. The world is not composed of firm objects, but is rather comprised through erosion, transformation and becoming. The body is not a boundary, but a passage. An image is not representation, but an event. The subject is not a center, but an effect of the relations that constantly form it.

The works of Anna Černická, Villads Rex, Maria Koskivirta and Irma Briford focus on that moment when a stable subject position, identity and form dissolve. Each of the artistic practices presented here approaches this question differently: through geological and soil processes, bio-materials, fragmentary images and the melding of the digital with the material.

Together, they explore what remains when the idea of an autonomous individual starts to seep into the ground, into technology, into the image and into collective structures. These tensions of opposites are not about conflict that leads to separation; they are rather a productive force that allows creation, transformation and destruction. Between the organic and the technological, the visible and the hidden, the human and the inhuman, there emerges a third space of relationality, sharing and mutual overlap.

Architecture: Adam Rýznar, Sofie Gjuričová