UN-SETTING/RE-SETTING

UN-SETTING/RE-SETTING begins with a fact: twenty artists from different countries share a single studio, with hundreds more gravitating around it. Every day, they negotiate space, language and working rhythms. Borders are not abstract concepts, but actors that evolve, shift and shape what is created and how.

If, as Judith Schalansky writes, maps are 'bold interpretations of the world', then Prachsaal is a hyperspace where the referent and dimensions overlap in an unpredictable creative chaos.

With each artist pursuing their own path, it is friction that gives us the spark and push to continuously reinvent our own ruleset.

One artist's material investigation meets another's cultural reference. One ambition challenges another vision. One community sits in another's chairs. Practices circle around each other, leaving gaps and routes to travel between the many worlds.

We aim to trace provisional maps that link the outside and the inside. We seek to introduce tension to the Gordian knot of a complex community. We are forming an atlas of in-between states where opposing perspectives intertwine.

Some pieces remain autonomous. Others reveal the breaks that occur when different artistic languages occupy the same ground. This exhibition explores and questions these tensions, which we see as the strength of a multimodal space. We display them as an unstable landscape where visitors cross borders that shift underfoot.

The question is not how to eliminate borders, but to think collectively of what emerges from negotiation, diversity and uncertainty.