Cyclical Tensions is a show by KARST volunteers: AS•I•AM, Dana Aala, Elisa Margot Winters, Erica Luke, Flora Elford, Lucy Walker, Sarah Trotter, curated by Nis Murat.
The works articulate a collective inquiry into repetition, routine, and resistance, whether encountered intentionally or subconsciously, as both a strategy and a conceptual condition. Repetition here is never neutral: it generates tension. It does not promise stability; it exposes vulnerability and temporality. The works enact a resistant gesture against disappearance, inhabiting spaces where memory, process, and fragility continually press against one another.
This show is grounded in the notion that repetition is not static. Each iteration, each routine, each cycle bears the weight of contingency, sustaining a tension that accumulates between sameness and difference, stability and instability, revealing the strain on the efforts that strive to persist within them. What remains is not the perfect copy, but the unresolved resonance: the glitch, the stain, the hand, the horizon line drawn once more.
Opening Event: Friday 5 September, 6-8pm
