OFLUXO

Enigmatic waves of seriality are curving over the surface of the earth. While syncing objects into mysterious sequences, these waves are creating seemingly intertwined coincidences without a visible causal link. In these moments the so-called small-scale miracles occur, also known as “synchronicities”. In the essay with the same title K.G. Jung mentions an occasion when a patient was recalling a dream about a necklace adorned with a pendant of a golden scarab. At that moment he was distracted by something softly scuffling by the window, which turned out to be a dung beetle with a greenish-golden shell – the closest possible insect to a scarab in these latitudes.

Collecting coincidences also was a passion of the controversial biologist Paul Kammerer. The principle of what he called “serialities” are based on an unexplored, magnetic force of the macrocosm, striving to replicate, group and unify. However, J.P. Sartre’s understanding of ‘seriality’ is something rather divergent. Accordingly, it is a distinct  characteristic of capitalism, which manifests itself as collective inertia. Meanwhile,  the original meaning of  ‘synchronicity’ unfolds as somewhat superstitious, but if one thinks about it literally, it also seems obvious. Clearly there are many matching occurrences happening simultaneously. These events are untraceable, and it is certainly impossible to determine their ripple-effect. Infinite amounts of information filtered through inevitably selective processing can make the external image of the world fragmentary and ephemeral. Yet with an infinite number of variations and a wide range of interpretations, they do not eliminate the possibility that we do live in a network.

The seeming binarism and principle of non-causal relation lies in aesthetic codes and toys with perceptual experience. Casting webs, falling into traps and collecting coincidences is not only a passion of disputable scientists, it’s also an old trick used by artists that urges to group visual impressions associatively and allows representation to wrestle with its perception. To partly maintain the term’s original mystical undertone, the ambivalent ‘synchronicities’ of this show are not only perceptible with active sight, but also with your ‘gut feeling’. 

LOW PROJECTS is the off-site manifestation of LOW Gallery from its regular program, supporting independent curators and cultural producers to realise ambitious projects and new forms of collaboration and community exchange.