Guerreiro Do Divino Amor, Taylor McArthur, Natalie Paneng, Richard Penn, Tracey Tawhiao, Imogen Taylor, Nat Tozer, Toby Twiss, Mawena Yehouessi.
The group show The Crackling of the Sun builds on mythic memories and speculative storytelling. Bringing together works shaped by mythologies, sci-fi chronologies, proposed futures and various forms of worldmaking, the exhibition moves through constellations and imaginaries, where time fractures, loops and returns through resonances and interruptions. Echoing feminist speculative fiction, Afro and Indigenous futurism, satirical critiques of modernity and nationalism, as well as scientific understandings of time as relational rather than absolute, the exhibition resists the idea of history as a singular trajectory, instead building spirals and frequencies of remembrance, of prophecies and of resistance.
Assembling heterogeneous and fragmented imaginaries, The Crackling of the Sun seeks not to restore coherence, but to reveal unexpected proximities and forms of relation that exceed dominant narratives. The conjunction of works proposes futurity as relational rather than an extractive conquest: a practice of returning, listening and reactivating what has been obscured. Collapse and renewal coexist within these artistic negotiations and what emerges is a vision of opening spaces for futures beyond neoliberal, colonial and patriarchal structures.
The exhibition unfolds across the gallery space and extends to two film programmes (13 & 28 SEPT), all offering inquiries into non-linear timescapes and speculative myths, while exploring future worldbuilding as a speculative, collective and feminist practice.
Curated by Anja Lückenkemper.