Again and Again and Again
Johanna Adebäck & Merve Ertufan | Dave Ball | Cécile Dupaquier | Nils Benedikt Fischer | Heiner Franzen | Nam Duc Nguyen
5.9.-14.9.2025
Opening: Friday, 5 September, 6-10 pm
Curator’s tour and conversation with the artists: Sunday 14 September 3 pm
Again and Again and Again is an exhibition that brings together a group of artists who work with repetition. While the speed and ease of AI impresses us with its ever-more accomplished output, its words, images, and sounds move within ever-decreasing circles of statistically probable, bland, and repetitive imitations of what already exists. The artists in this exhibition work with a different kind of repetition, whose recurring and recursive themes and practices spiral outwards in possibility.
From Heiner Franzen’s unsettling looped imagery of a footballer’s long walk back to the centre circle after missing a penalty to Johanna Adebäck & Merve Ertufan’s maddeningly insistent exchange of mutual compliments, from Cécile Dupaquier’s meticulous building up of a grid of straight pencil lines to Dave Ball’s attempt to illustrate every word in the dictionary beginning with G with a drawing of a different leaf from the same tree, from Nils Benedikt Fischer’s slow, cyclically revolving basins of liquid to Nam Duc Nguyen’s repeated attempts to find a solution to the same abstract painterly problem with each new painting, all of the repetitive works in this exhibition achieve an unexpected singularity by refusing the lure of the singular.