Soft Armors: ‘MY FAKE NAILS MY REAL CLAWS’ and the Glamour of the Lethal Object

Thirteen artists turn the accessory into a soft armor: trophy and diary, ornament and weapon, the closet rewritten as a reliquary of becoming, where the next self waits sharpened.

Echoes That Refuse to Fade by Yesakova, Struger & Palyvoda

Three artists assemble the anatomical theatre as a living structure: dissection tables, ceramic relics, and mirror-shards mapping the body as site where power inscribes itself and refuses to dissolve.

Strange Rules by Mat Dryhurst and Holly Herndon

Cognition keeps showing up where we did not put it. Strange Rules turns Palazzo Diedo into a working laboratory for that suspicion, with Picbreeder and planarian worms as its strangest witnesses.

The Colors Within by Naoko Yamada

Naoko Yamada turns a Catholic girls' school, a teenage rock band and a synesthete's watercolour vision into a soft liturgy on faith, friendship and unspoken queer longing.