In an age of material excess and technological obsolescence, this exhibition asks us to reconsider objects as active agents that shape experience rather than passive tools. They generate relations, frictions, and meanings that refocus attention on the material conditions of everyday life.

Mariana Ledesma (b.1996, Salamanca, Guanajuato) mobilizes sound, electricity, and found industrial materials—recycled circuits and modified electronics—to assemble responsive systems. Works such as Máquina Blanda (2025) treat circuitry and debris as sensory components whose hums and failures expose technology’s contingency.

Vytautas Kumža (b.1992, Klaipėda, Lithuania) stages quotidian objects—perforated glass, fractured mirrors, gloves, metal frameworks—so that their altered or stripped functions produce unsettling, ambiguous tableaux (e.g., Trimming; On the Move). The familiar becomes unstable and affective.

Echoing theories of thing‑agency (Jane Bennett), both practices turn materials and technologies into assemblages that do more than represent: they perform, vibrate, and reconfigure perception and space.

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