It's a Balance Trick

A group exhi­bi­tion curat­ed by Res­i­den­cy Unlim­it­ed (RU) alum Eglė Ambra­saitė, fea­tur­ing 7 inter­na­tion­al artists: Yaki­ra Ament, Rosario Aróstegui, Cae­cil­ia Goeken, Lau­ra Lewis, MIMOZA LIZA, David Mon­net, and Eden Auer­bach Ofrat.

“It’s a Bal­ance Trick” approach­es the con­tem­po­rary human con­di­tion not as a uni­ver­sal con­stant, but as a plur­al, dynam­ic, and con­text-depen­dent area of both vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty, inter-depen­den­cy and resis­tance. It serves as a mir­ror, a cri­tique, and a pos­si­ble heal­ing space. Fol­low­ing fem­i­nist new mate­ri­al­ist the­o­ries, the group exhi­bi­tion embraces humans not as autonomous, iso­lat­ed beings, but as enti­ties that are entan­gled, rela­tion­al, and mate­ri­al­ly embed­ded with­in com­plex ecolo­gies – social, bio­log­i­cal, and tech­no­log­i­cal. Accen­tu­at­ing the urge for rela­tion­al­i­ty and intra-action – the new mate­ri­al­ist way of under­stand­ing bal­ance as a mat­ter of respon­si­ble entan­gle­ment – the works on view delve into inves­ti­ga­tions of mean­ing-mak­ing and offer a nuanced account of diverse cul­tur­al expe­ri­ences. Togeth­er, they inves­ti­gate the com­plex­i­ties, anx­i­eties, and para­dox­es of what the 21^st-cen­tu­ry (more-than-)human con­di­tion might entail.

RU is one of the 2025 Gov­er­nors Island Arts Orga­ni­za­tions in Res­i­dence.