This exhibition begins as a fragment.
A first presence, a gesture, a work.
Then another. And another. Each new addition acts as a chapter, a layer, a subtle shift in the existing balance.

Unfolding is conceived as a process of expansion. The project proposes a cumulative and ever-transforming format: with each phase, a new artist and a new work are added to the space, in dialogue with what has come before.

Each intervention is a form of revisiting, a return to what has already been shown, one that destabilizes and reactivates the present. The exhibition becomes a choreography of successive presences that cohabit, challenge, and reshape one another.

It is not merely about adding, but about insisting on the act of returning, of revealing new layers of meaning, of constructing a memory built in the present.

This can be understood as a form of slow migration, where each incorporation alters the climate of the exhibition, shifts the atmosphere, and expands the frame of reference. The gallery becomes a porous body, an organism in continuous mutation.

Unfolding, a choreography of time reflects on what it means to carry something across a border. What happens when another presence enters a space? What memories are activated in the collision of presences?

The public is invited to return, not only to see what is new, but to experience how what was already there has changed, transformed by each encounter.

In doing so, Unfolding resists linear narratives and affirms the potential of coexistence and transformation. In a world increasingly shaped by restrictive laws and regressive political agendas, gestures of slow transformation and collective resonance become urgent forms of resistance.

ARTISTS

Ai Ozaki
Ana Mazzei
Hudinilson Jr.
Jimmie Durham for LABINAC
Jota Mombaça
Laura Huertas Millán
Lia D Castro
Maria Thereza Alves for LABINAC
Moe Satt
Omar Chowdhury
Rebecca Sharp
Regina Vater