In a room, in a riddle

The artists in the exhibition share an exploratory and often intuitive approach to method and process. A conscious relationship with materiality, form aesthetic properties and spatial conditions also underlies all of their practices.

An ambiguity related to what defines an object as a work of art characterizes several of the works, and in meeting several of them the first impression is put to the test. Because what actually distinguishes visual art, handicrafts and design? Aren’t such categorizations only about context, the eye that sees and the associations that arise in the encounter with the work?

At the same time, the various works open metaphorically for reflections beyond themselves; about the everyday versus the artistically high-value, cultural heritage and identity, meetings between traditions and the sharing of knowledge, the necessity of space for exploration, and breaking down divisions across the established – in and outside of art.

Because after all, perhaps the most important quality of art is its inherent potential to encourage us to adopt other perspectives and look at things from several sides.