Almost Nothing


Brianna Perry
Dylan Languell
Cathy Hsiao
Alexis de Chaunac
Jonas Müller-Ahlheim
Camille Casemier
Elisa Ctorza
Sam Stevens
Aleksandra Wałaszek
Dorota Kruczalak

in my dream my body is an acrobatic girl. my subjectivity is the wellspring! my subjectivity is the prison!

Brianna Perry

Almost Nothing follows what remains as forms lose their stability. More than an exhibition, it is an event– transforming experience into evidence. Or perhaps it is not about that at all. It is about disappearance: the recognition of what is no longer there. Meaning emerges through distance and uneasy forms of authorship.

It is all represented across rubbings, sculptures, installations, found objects, and performances. All the presented works form a dispersed vocabulary of absence, endurance, and transformation. The invisible or headless bodies gathered together are assembled from leftovers: ex-votos, salvaged clothes, cast-offs, all collected and reattached. Used, wrinkled, dripping, they accumulate concealed inheritances.

Space is divided by the enforced blue grid, blue, the color of trust, camouflaging them/us at night. The ceiling is supported by walls or dried flowers. Nothing feels stable, yet neither does it collapse. After all, what makes the body whole is the fracture. Something that slips. Because failure is not a deficiency but a relief: the pleasure of not having to.

Aleksandra Wałaszek

Firewall II: Great Wall (detail)

Cathy Hsiao

Mixed media installation

Text, Aleksandra Wałaszek
Photography, Sam Stevens