Their works originate from fleeting found objects of everyday life—a gesture, an apple seed, an overheard sentence. They condense these into spatial arrangements that continue to have an ambiguous effect.

Тsvetomira builds the inner world of the (stereotypical idea of) successful woman in stages, bringing together her attributes - necklace, intertwined knives, leash. Composed of archaic totems of violence, but glittering, the essence of her universe is reduced to decor.

“Are You a Modern Girl!” explores the way rituals are contained and refracted in the present, problematizing their necessity, the effect of commodifying them, and the possibility of them becoming something dangerous if not handled with care. Through photography, video, sculpture and performance, the project presents different perspectives on the extinction, transformation and sustainability of rituals in contemporary society. The starting point for its understanding is the relationship between the new models of communication, forms of work and the economic structures we live in, as institutes of anxiety and alienation, and rituals as a potential means of the aforementioned “making oneself at home in the world”.

Unrequited Remnants delves into the conventions and restrictions that define our contemporary society. The sculptural assemblages featured in the exhibition function as “matter out of place,” a concept Mary Douglas investigates in reference to dirt in her seminal work Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo.

Parallèle is more than a festival. It's a comprehensive project supporting emerging international artists, actively involved in the production, distribution, and support of projects; artistic programming; training and professional integration; experiencing art with everyone; and reflecting on contemporary issues.

These are not the original works, not the “real” objects, but stand-ins: props, copies, echoes. They become stand-ins for the lives we imagine through objects, for the characters we enact around them.

Everywhere, neoliberal fascisms are gaining ground and organizing to weaken dissenting voices and bodies. Faced with this, what can artistic creation do? What can a performance festival do? Probably nothing spectacular. But perhaps, simply, it can echo this reality and contribute to the construction of a shared polyphonic narrative.

The exhibition exploring the readymade in a state of exhaustion, where self-irony becomes a tool for critical reflection on both the artistic method and the current cultural context.

“[…] more light is deflected in all directions creating hazes of copper and brown over the horizon as the fragments build up into a smog eventually what is left of the rays is not much at all allowing the eyes to look directly at the sun […].” (Excerpt from phantom currents by Lidija Kononenko)

Cem A. invites the visitor to question the nature of the language utilised by art organisations to describe exhibitions and artworks to the public in supposedly inclusive, informative and accessible ways.

Part of the False Sun research project, the installation sees culture as a hybrid object of transformation of myths, ideologies, disappointed hopes and out-of-context copies bearing the only memory inscribed on their skin.