The Rupture: No condition is permanent

Taysir Batniji, Jenny Brady, Dasha Chechushkova, Jasmina Cibic, Kiri Dalena, Zhanna Kadyrova, Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk, Tarik Kiswanson, Eoghan Ryan, Margaret Salmon, Astra Taylor, Li Yifan, Carey Young, Claudia Zeiske and Song Ziwei

At a time of profound global uncertainty, The Rupture: No condition is permanent asks what it means to live through the breakdown of established systems, rules-based order and global relationships.  Amidst the rise of generative AI, neo-colonial threats, the reality of war and growing economic inequality, we also face the escalating effects of climate change that knows no borders, causing extreme weather and planetary events around the world. As nations attempt to align, find common ground around shared values and act in the interests of the future, the exhibition brings together artists from different cultural contexts, and explores the changing reality of our time from a position of hope. Across the collaboration, artists give voice to the voiceless, draw our attention to the means of our manipulation, reveal hidden constructs beneath our lives and share their lived experience of this rupture. In abstract and complex ways, they insist that the world is ours to change — that no condition is permanent.