OFLUXO

We propose this exhibition as a scenography, comprising of both actors and background, pieces and board. Exploring the artworks potential to not only function in a specific context, but to become the context itself. Within this structure, practices are both fluid and solid, going in and out of each other, illustrating their ability to frame and be framed. The artworks on display show pareidolias of manufactured objects, explorations of an environment’s effect on one’s physicality, sculptural positions glimpsing domestic atmospheres and investigations into cultural fluidity. All address a sense of alienation when a house no longer defines your home.

Arto Rta, 1997, Belgium
Arto Rta is a Belgian visual artist, who works across painting, video, drawing and installations. Rta’s practice initiates from his personal bodily experiences and is triggered by elements of his environment, producing in him psychological excitations that orbit around themes of porosity, digestion and libido. Based in Amsterdam, Rta also co-founded the exhibition space Boo 2, also in Amsterdam.

Bin Koh, 1990,
South Korea Bin Koh is a visual artist based in Amsterdam. In her work, she plays with dominant ways of seeing the Other and seeks to capture and appropriate these gazes for her own means. In playing with the gaze through reversal, refraction or aversion altogether, Koh’s work seeks to open up different perspectives that typically go unseen and invisible. She studied at Sandberg Instituut, Master of Voice in 2018.

Simon Marsiglia, 1993, Sweden Based in Amsterdam,
Simon Marsiglia’s practice takes form within a grey area between wearable object and sculpture. Working with manufactured objects as his starting point, Marsiglia speculates on the flora and fauna of the future. Looking at technology emulating nature, faces in the inanimate and environmental adaptations of creatures, Marsiglia poses the question: “What if the objects we create through bionics take on not only the abilities of nature but also the behaviour of the life form it is resembling?”.

Jonas Morgenthaler, 1995, Switzerland
Jonas Morgenthaler works across assemblage, sculpture and installation. By questioning the properties of objects and the way we engage with them, Morgenthaler stresses the normative narratives of the objects surrounding us and aims at eventually reconfiguring it. In 2023, Morgenthaler will join the research progrAM OF ABA in Berlin with the support of Pro Helvetia. Currently, Morgenthaler lives and works in Vienna.