Worlds That Flicker

The exhibition Worlds That Flicker explores the fluid boundaries between reality and imagination, between what we perceive as “real” and what we can imagine as alternative worlds. A mosaic of alternative realities unfolds in which the supposedly real appears as a flexible construct shaped by power, language and technology - inviting us to rethink reality through speculative narratives.
Inspired by visionary science fiction authors Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia Butler, whose writings defy conventional norms by creating bold visions of a future beyond capitalist, racist and patriarchal structures; the exhibition presents artistic positions that operate at the edges of the possible. Instead of linear narration, poetic, fragmented, non-human, mycelial or algorithmically generated, flickering worlds emerge.
In the exhibition, the artists create alternative realities as fluid, networked and vulnerable structures. Between environmental ethics and speculative ecology, new relationships between humans, machines and fungal networks emerge. The bodies in these works are hybrid, unstable and constantly morphing - they breathe, melt, flicker or decompose. Identity appears as a fluid state, permeable and in constant transformation.
Within these flickering worlds lies a resistance to the static, to the either-or. The works unfold as breathing, multidimensional and permeable formations. They invite us to think about reality as something in flux - as something that does not have to be definite in order to be real.
Curated by Yolanda Kaddu-Mulindwa and Nina Marlene Kraus