MEGABOLISMopen call publication
OPEN
30-$
It has turned into a kind of metabolic system: absorbing signals, producing meaning, discarding whatever doesn’t fit. We feel ourselves responding to it before we even begin to think. MEGABOLISM asks what it means to make work in this climate, where the pulse around us often replaces the argument itself.
RATIONAL INATTENTIONpublication
978―4―9914389―0―5
40-$
softcover with elastic binding loop.
Printed in Japan
A curated visual anthology on selective perception, identity, and digital complexity.
22 artists working across photography, design, and visual essays, offering perspectives that span from intimate personal narratives to sharp examinations of media, technology, and collective experience. The result is a layered visual exploration of how attention is shaped, fragmented, and reclaimed in an overstimulated world.
NOT FOR WHAT WAS, BUT FOR WHAT STILL LINGERS open call exhibition
CLOSED
Not as an absence, but as a persistent echo. It is the lingering trace of all that we build and love, the material evidence that the past is never truly gone, only transformed.
In a world frantic with acquisition and obsessed with pristine permanence, we invite artists to embrace the radical act of looking at what remains. We seek works that challenge the myth of perpetual growth and the fear of decay, finding meaning not in possession, but in the graceful, inexorable process of dissolution.
SAM EVANS - LEAD UP THE GARDEN PATHexhibition
Evans’s hand-colored prints and analog photographs do not aim to represent the world as it is, but as it is felt, recalled, and reimagined. In this wild garden, nature becomes a collaborator in the search for belonging, a mirror for identity, and a stage for fiction. The path is winding, the signs unclear, and the destination unknown—but in this instability lies the possibility of transformation.
Sam Evans is a German artist working across photography, video, and mixed media. Her work has been shown in exhibitions across Europe and explores themes of identity, memory, and the absurdity of the human condition through the lens of myth, nature, and emotional inheritance.
WHAT IS THE FIRST IMAGE YOU REMEMBER?exhibition
In What Is the First Image You Remember, artists are invited to revisit the earliest images that stayed with them — fragments of memory, first impressions, and private landscapes where seeing and remembering are one.
The exhibition explores how the first visual experiences continue to echo through personal narratives and creative expression.
Visitors will encounter diverse interpretations, each offering a glimpse into the fragile beginnings of visual memory.
WHAT IS THE FIRST IMAGE YOU REMEMBER?open call
CLOSED
What Is the First Image You Remember?
This open call invites artists to reflect on the complex and shifting nature of memory—its fleeting qualities and its role in shaping our perception of the world. Artists are encouraged to revisit their earliest visual memories and examine how memory intertwines reality with imagination, merging past and present. This open call welcomes explorations of remembrance, imagination, and nostalgia, raising questions about how memories form, evolve, and influence our understanding.
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