Cildo Meireles, Wisrah Celestino, Kai Althoff, Kandis Williams

Gestures, symbols, and structures shape our collective memory - but what happens when they are manipulated or emptied of meaning? The works displayed in the transitional space between the galleries question the conditions that shape our perception of reality.

Kai Althoff's works resist clear interpretations: the textile collage Immo (2004), made of transparent fabric panels, papers, and photos, creates an ambivalent tension between constructions and deconstruction.

Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino's works are characterized by a critical examination of existing systems: Pigs (2022) assembles piggy banks whose bottoms have been removed. Stripped of their function of storing money, they prompt reflection on what money means when it loses its physical form.

In Cildo Meireles' Fontes (2016), this disruption of order is echoed, as the numbers of a wall clock appear to have fallen to the floor - the familiar rhythm is suspended, and time lies in chaos. Another example if the manipulation of signs is found in the work of Kandis Williams. In the Oratory Command: X Carmichael King Hampton (2016), she collages the hands of Black activists. These hands interlock, multiplied like protests that persist through time and media.