The group exhibition presents the outcome of the year-long Inspiration Forum Lab art and research programme, in which participants explored trajectories as movements across time, space, and different forms of experience. Through sand, stone, and steel, the three projects examine relationships between materiality, landscape, memory, and human and more-than-human perspectives.

I like it when u sand approaches sand not as a material but as a process and a mode of world-making. Through language, storytelling, and a constellation of objects, it explores the geological, social, and poetic trajectories of this seemingly ordinary yet fundamentally indispensable substance.

The participatory project Kladno Steel Stories Telling connects the personal memories of Kladno residents with broader reflections on collective memory, the right to the city, and steel as both the material and symbolic infrastructure of industrial techno-progressivism. Through fragmented narratives, it brings attention back to the people whose labour and everyday lives shaped the identity of the city without becoming part of its official history.

( ) in stone draws on the story of the Jaanikivi sacrificial stone and river in the Estonian village of Miikse, whose landscape was transformed by land improvement projects in the second half of the twentieth century. Through local micro-stories and multiple perspectives, the project explores relationships between humans, stone, and landscape, and ways of understanding broader environmental and social transformations.

Participating artists and researchers: Clara Baj (FR/BE), Daniela Brill Estrada (CO/AT), Penelope Cain (AU/NL), Imke Hullmann (DE/NL), Karl Kaisel (EE), Seta Astreou Karides (CY), Magda Kopańska (PL/AT), Markéta Švarcová (CZ), Mana Tashakorinia (IR/FI)