5th Exhibition

Artists Irina Lotarevich Keren Cytter Liora Epstein Marina Sula Miriam Schenkirz Nura Afnan-Samandari Shelim Alvarado I cannot put my finger on it explores artistic strategies of mirroring, fiction and theatricality. The exhibited works by Irina Lotarevich, Keren Cytter, Liora Epstein, Marina Sula, Miriam Schenkirz, Nura Afnan-Samandari and Shelim Alvarado explore tensions between visible surfaces and hidden structures, individual perspective and collective narrative, truth and deception. They move between documentary aspirations and performative gestures, serious engagement and subversive play. Some works adopt the mechanisms of a stage—roles, scenography, and sets—others turn to their own production and processes, revealing underlying structures of dependency, power relations and media transformations. In I cannot put my finger on it, fiction does not exist in a space of its own, but rather at the fuzzy boundary to reality. As scenes shift, protagonists create stories within stories, like building with hidden rooms. Inconspicuous objects, or props, suddenly find themselves caught in the spotlight. Curated by Franca Zitta & Leonore Spemann