Base Materialism: Ambera Wellmann, Cindy Ji Hye Kim, Fin Simonetti, Ivana Bašić, Rachel Rossin, Shuyi Cao, Shuo Hao

Throughout the exhibition, strategic interventions in form and space subvert hierarchical taxonomies. Works suspended from above or anchored to the floor create a physical experience of decentring, while a pervasive fleshy palette destabilises boundaries between refined aesthetics and primal materiality, grounding corporeal allusions in base matter. In their diverse approaches, these artists reject sanitised depictions in favour of messy vitality and inevitable decay. Forms hover at the threshold where attraction and repulsion coexist, evoking what Kristeva describes as "one of those violent, dark revolts of being.” The destabilisation of form becomes a radical act: inviting viewers to interrogate our fundamental affliction of being that exists beyond sanguine human idealism and looks toward the posthuman.