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This premise runs like a thread through the oeuvre of artist Alicja Kwade. With sculptures, photographs, videos and immersive installations, Kwade challenges philosophical and scientific concepts, calling our certainties into question. She exposes how we construct reality through cultural and political conventions, mathematical systems, measuring instruments, and language – models we often assume to be true, neutral and universal, suddenly appear to be far less self-evident.
For millennia, humanity has searched for answers to the fundamental questions of the universe. Yet with each question we believe we have resolved, new ones inevitably arise. Kwade regards these scientific and philosophical uncertainties not as obstacles, but as opportunities. She translates abstract concepts – like time, chance, and gravity – into tangible form, not to offer explanations, but to call them into question. For it is precisely in not knowing that wonder and imagination take root.…
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This premise runs like a thread through the oeuvre of artist Alicja Kwade. With sculptures, photographs, videos and immersive installations, Kwade challenges philosophical and scientific concepts, calling our certainties into question. She exposes how we construct reality through cultural and political conventions, mathematical systems, measuring instruments, and language – models we often assume to be true, neutral and universal, suddenly appear to be far less self-evident.
For millennia, humanity has searched for answers to the fundamental questions of the universe. Yet with each question we believe we have resolved, new ones inevitably arise. Kwade regards these scientific and philosophical uncertainties not as obstacles, but as opportunities. She translates abstract concepts – like time, chance, and gravity – into tangible form, not to offer explanations, but to call them into question. For it is precisely in not knowing that wonder and imagination take root.…
