Opening: Tue, 02.09.2025, 7pm (with a DJ-set by Miyra Lim)
Duration: Wed, 03.09. – Sat, 08.11.2025
Artists: Davide Allieri, Mila Balzhieva, Evelina Hägglund, Femke Herregraven, Miriam Kongstad, Sahej Rahal, Andreia Santana, Siggi Sekira, Marianne Vlaschits
Curators: Tjaša Pogačar & Frederike Sperling
Performances:
Tue,16.09.2025, 7pm I Miriam Kongstad, Free-Fall (2023)
Wed, 29.10.2025, 7pm I Marianne Vlaschits, A Wobbly Federation of Tongues, Hands, Faces and Lungs (2025)
Whether it happens to us or someone we are listening to, the tip-of-the-tongue feeling is often an uncomfortable one. Under the pressure to go on, we grasp at swirling thoughts, secretly test the shape of possible words in our mouth, at times accompanied by frantic gestures. The longer the narrative is disrupted and the wider the gap that perforates it, the more a sense of uncertainty takes hold. Yet, instead of smoothing the exchange with a change of topic or filler words, what if we were to hold this mode of hesitation? What if we were to dwell in the unruly topography of the gap and listen to the murmurs, breaths, smacks, and whispers that reside in these crevices of language?
On a tongue’s tip, at a world’s lip takes the moment of suspended narration, the hesitation between words, as a metaphor for an interregnum between worlds. What other ways of relating and understanding, what futures may root in this threshold?
Like a choir, the works in this exhibition offer not one eloquent answer but multiple prophetic messages, each of them evading linguistic closure. Attuned to gaps and disruptions, they make time and space for the groans, stutters, movements, and experiences at the limits of language and communication. They summon different visions of reality, conjuring worlds not ruled by the economic imperative of instantaneity, flow, and efficiency but forged in the dysfluent rhythms of existence.
The exhibition was realized with the kind support of Danish Arts Foundation, Mondriaan Fund, Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Slowenisches Kulturinformationszentrum SKICA Wien, Galerie Hubert Winter, Projekt Atol Ljubljana