Holding breath: A dying poem (Act I)
fluent•Mar 22, 2025 — Dec 30, 2025
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Holding breath: a dying poem Holding breath: a dying poem is a year–long exhibition that considers how transmission, change and affection reverberate on us, once objects and bodies are no longer present. Thinking through logistical and maintenance systems as spectral forces, the exhibition rehearses different temporalities by juxtaposing multiple durations, compositions and assemblages of work.
Across seven acts (overture –act I to V– and epilogue), the exhibition's organising principle aims to reveal the traces that, beyond physicality, movement and connectivity provoke. In doing so, it tests the political configurations that exist within such immaterial space.
The image contained in the title is this of an oxygen curve being exhaled from the mouth, taking the shape of a vertical concavity. As it evaporates into the atmosphere, the body's warmth dissipates into a wider mass of air. We breathe and the self dilutes into the environment cyclically, just as the w…
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Holding breath: A dying poem (Act I)
fluent•Mar 22, 2025 — Dec 30, 2025
Press Release
Holding breath: a dying poem Holding breath: a dying poem is a year–long exhibition that considers how transmission, change and affection reverberate on us, once objects and bodies are no longer present. Thinking through logistical and maintenance systems as spectral forces, the exhibition rehearses different temporalities by juxtaposing multiple durations, compositions and assemblages of work.
Across seven acts (overture –act I to V– and epilogue), the exhibition's organising principle aims to reveal the traces that, beyond physicality, movement and connectivity provoke. In doing so, it tests the political configurations that exist within such immaterial space.
The image contained in the title is this of an oxygen curve being exhaled from the mouth, taking the shape of a vertical concavity. As it evaporates into the atmosphere, the body's warmth dissipates into a wider mass of air. We breathe and the self dilutes into the environment cyclically, just as the w…
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