Palmo panorama
Palmo panorama — what a strange title. That was my first thought when Marco Emmanuele showed me the draft of the invitation to the opening of his solo exhibition at the LABS gallery. And yet, thinking about it, the two words placed side by side manage to express and hold together the different tensions of […]
It’s out of love
It’s out of love di Deborah Graziano è parte del lavoro di restituzione del ciclo di residenza di VIAFARINI. “Tentativo di trovare un’interezza, nella relazione con l’altro, che ha come effetto un’asettica e viscerale rappresentazione dell’incomunicabilità umana.” “It’s out of love” by Deborah Graziano is part of the public presentation of the VIAFARINI residency cycle. […]
Images
Images by Tanya Brodsky from November 22nd, 2025 to January 3rd, 2026 The last time I was in Tanya’s studio, she read the following quote from Guy Debord’s 1967 canonical work, “Society of the Spectacle,” to me: “The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point that it becomes images.” Nearly 60 years later, with social […]
Cora Pongracz “8 erweiterte portraits” with: Marietta Mavrokordatou
The second dialogical presentation expands Cora Pongracz’s series and exhibition of the same name, “8 erweiterte portraits”, with works by Cypriot artist Marietta Mavrokordatou, which complement Cora Pongracz’s media-reflective and expanded understanding of portraiture and identity with the dimension of embodied and situated experience. Drawing on a phenomenological understanding of vision, Mavrokordatou repeatedly uses the […]
HOST
Julia Królikowska’s exhibition, HOST, showcases her latest paintings and folding-screen constructions within the historic interiors of Villa at 3 Wieniawskiego Street. This building, formerly housing the Institute of Hygiene and the Department of Microbiology, is soon set to become the new home of the Institute of Art History at Adam Mickiewicz University. Królikowska’s compositions, drawing […]
the sun rises somewhere at any given moment
Almost a century ago, Virginia Woolf, one of the most acclaimed writers, pondered what it means and how important it is to “have a place of one’s own.” Thinking about the perspective of women, she took as her starting point a room in which they would have unlimited space just for themselves. It should be […]
Cora Pongracz “8 erweiterte portraits” with: Seiichi Furuya
The first dialogical exhibition expands Cora Pongracz’s 56-part series and exhibition of the same name, ‘8 erweiterte portraits’, with two serial cycles of works by Seiichi Furuya. Since the 1970s, the Japanese photographer, who lives in Graz, has been using the medium of photography to process personal experiences and processes of remembering and (non-)forgetting in […]
Afterfire
It’s an especially sunny day for October, yet I find myself inside. I’m dusting off my mom’s old Windows XP laptop for a light-hearted sesh of nostalgia. I open The Sims, my save file, which is now over twenty years old, is pristinely preserved on the hard drive. Booting into my ‘most recent’ plot, I […]
Mute Track
We first got to know the work of Bianca Hlywa, a Canadian artist based in London, in 2019, before the pandemic and even before we opened Atoi. Bianca was already at that time working with SCOBY—an acronym for Symbiotic Culture Of Bacteria and Yeast—commonly known as kombucha fungus, a probiotic drink that has become popular […]
Ora et Lege III ‘Saïat Nova – New Hour’,
The third edition of Ora et Lege (Pray and Read) focuses on text as a site for polyphony. Drawing inspiration from an 18th century poet Saïat Nova (1722–1801), the exhibition looks at text as a visual, performative, and sonic work at once. As an Armenian living and working in Georgia, the poet sang in multiple […]