Did Habit leave?
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen•Sep 14, 2025 — Jan 11, 2026
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Did Habit leave? is a duo exhibition by Cecilia Bjartmar Hylta and Samuel Hindolo which draws upon the artists’ shared exploration of the limits of the optical field. Both of their practices involve a working through of found material, or what could be described as a scouring and sifting through the residues of public life. There’s a kinship in their artistic sensibility and a shared curiosity for what remains hidden, lingering or latent in a familiar object or image, and the ways in which its habitual meaning can be subtly altered and pushed into abstraction. Abstraction is articulated here as a condition of becoming and a trajectory, rather than as a knowing or a fixed state. It’s almost as if the world and the internalized, often unconscious ways in which we perceive and inhabit it, is removed and held at a distance – for us to contemplate and look at anew.
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Did Habit leave?
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen•Sep 14, 2025 — Jan 11, 2026
Press Release
Did Habit leave? is a duo exhibition by Cecilia Bjartmar Hylta and Samuel Hindolo which draws upon the artists’ shared exploration of the limits of the optical field. Both of their practices involve a working through of found material, or what could be described as a scouring and sifting through the residues of public life. There’s a kinship in their artistic sensibility and a shared curiosity for what remains hidden, lingering or latent in a familiar object or image, and the ways in which its habitual meaning can be subtly altered and pushed into abstraction. Abstraction is articulated here as a condition of becoming and a trajectory, rather than as a knowing or a fixed state. It’s almost as if the world and the internalized, often unconscious ways in which we perceive and inhabit it, is removed and held at a distance – for us to contemplate and look at anew.
In a physical sense, the exhibition is framed by a large-scale, walkabl…
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