Still Air at Articule (2025)
“Still Air evokes the feeling of anticipation, which is marked both by waiting for something to happen and waiting for something not to happen — hope and fear intertwined together. Anchored in the reality of grievance, this work is situated in the hauntedness of everyday life. Physically starting from water infrastructure and spatially from architectural enclosures such as courtyards, this space offers a slowing of time and room for contemplation. The precariousness of everyday life is embedded into materials that can melt or seep away, evaporate into thin air. In the calmness of Still Air nothing is shaken nor remedied, only provoked by a wordless knowing. How to wait while pain and grief continuously seep into normalcy? How to sit with an invisible weight on the most mundane, seemingly unrelated acts and objects of everyday life? In this moment when the overwhelming weight of information creates numbness, the ordinary becomes absurd. Through the interplay of dualities such as familiar and strange, public and private, real and unreal, Still Air engages with the intimacy of the political, an exploration of the personal consequences of public events as they unfold.”
Read the complete exhibition text written by Ramzi Nimr here
Photo Credits: Guy L’heureux
