METANOIA IV: future imperfect @Salto (Lisboa)
Adriana João, Bruno Silva, Di Lança Branco, Mette Rasmussen, Nicky Sparre-Ulrich, Silas Inoue
Curated by David Revés and Sofie Amalie Andersen

Udstillingen er kurateret af David Revés og Sofie Amalie Andersen, og støttet af Ny Carlsbergfondet samt dgARTES

Following the exhibition, Metanoia III – Saturated Solitude, presented in May 2025, in SOL, Nexø, the Metanoia project, and close collaboration between David Revés (SALTO) and Sofie Amalie Andersen (SOL) now continues at Salto, Lisbon.

Metanoia IV: Future Imperfect revisits works and concerns from the previous exhibition on Bornholm, while opening up to a more unstable and porous field.  In the exhibition we are faced with a constellation of heterogeneous perspectives on confrontation, fear and uncertainty, as well as the traps, manipulations and regimes of instability that permeate contemporary existence. Moving between configurations that function as metaphors of the Modern experience but also as states of hesitation — melancholic moods, dreamlike landscapes and objects, or expressive frictions between future-oriented procedures and ancestral forms — the exhibition traverses human sensorial and symbolic regimes alongside more-than-human narrativities and possibilities. Here, life (or non-life) ahead of us (as individuals and as humanity) appears as an imperfect image: obscured, indeterminate, resistant to anticipation or stabilisation. It neither resolves into promise nor collapses into absolute catastrophe, but remains suspended in a persistent state of cloudiness. And yet, while a dystopian outcome feels increasingly plausible and its spectral presence continually hovers over the show, a residual glimmer — fragile, discontinuous and undefined — continues to flicker, casting a dim light from just around the corner.

The exhibition is supported by the New Carlsberg Foundation and dgARTES