group exhibition curated by Victoria Rivers
ANNA BOCHKOVA, REBECCA STORM,
IRENE MOLINA Y KÖREI SÁNDOR
27.02.25 - 28.03.25
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Sylvia Plath wrote "The Bell Jar" during a particularly difficult period in her life, marked by a struggle with societal expectations about women's roles, depression, a marital crisis, the lack of financial resources, and motherhood. The novel was born as a way to process these experiences, becoming a triumph of creation over the pre-established. It reflects both her personal battle with mental illness and her professional challenges in a society that failed to understand her pain.
Today, beyond its literary value, "The Bell Jar" stands as a feminist bastion, a story in which the social and the human transcend established boundaries. This curatorship is inspired by that same impulse: how adversity transforms creation and leads us to inhabit both space and society in new ways.
The project explores the intersection between artistic creation and the act of inhabiting social roles, showing how artists, in the face of challenges, not only create but also redefine the environments they occupy. Art becomes a vehicle for resistance, adaptation, and reinvention, transgressing limits, conquering new territories, and leaving a mark on the social fabric. In this process, adversity transforms into a force that reshapes our way of perceiving and inhabiting the world.
The force of change emerges through the collective, and it is in shared creation that we find the ability to transform it.
Here, we discover some of the voices that drive this change, a space where the alchemy of creation stems from multiple states, experiences, and yearnings. It is at this intersection of dimensions where the psyche, the fragility of life, magical dystopias, and material realities intertwine, shaping a new paradigm of creation.
Curated by Victoria Rivers
ARTISTS
ANNA BOCHKOVA
Anna Bochkova (1995, Rostov on Don, Russia) is a visual artist based in Hamburg (Germany) and Vienna (Austria).
Her artistic practice revolves around creating her own dramaturgies, where her works act as characters, inviting critical reflection and open dialogue. She employs media such as papier-mâché, ceramics, textiles, metal, and drawing to explore themes like utopia, future, care, society, and humanity.
Through her works, she creates scenes that depict gestures of care performed by human and non-human beings in the fictional world of "tomorrow." She often draws inspiration from the writings of Eastern European landscape theorists. Her figurative ceramics address themes such as power relations, migration, and feminist theory.
IRENE MOLINA
Irene Molina, (1997, Granada, Spain) currently resides in Madrid.
Her work explores new digital media, especially 3D, challenging the boundaries between the real and the simulated. Her artistic practice delves into the construction of fictional materialities, creating hybrid spaces where the physical and the virtual intertwine in a complex and fragmented way.
Through techniques such as photogrammetry, 3D printing, iron welding, and digital animation, Irene creates archaeologies of the imaginary that blur traditional boundaries between the tangible and the intangible. Her works question the nature of materiality in the digital age, generating surfaces that oscillate between representation and existence, where error and glitch become aesthetic language.
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REBECCA STORM
Rebecca Storm (1987, BC, Canada) was born and raised in Vancouver Island, BC, and now lives and works as a painter in Montreal, QC. Her work primarily focuses on the psyche and how visual information affects conscious and subconscious memory.
Drawing from personal experience, her paintings use semiotics to speculate on how cycles of trauma, addiction, spirituality, and power influence one's sense of identity and autonomy. Her work explores how we are often unconsciously at the mercy of these forces and how they affect the nature of our lived experience and our ability to connect with others.
KÖREI SÁNDOR
Körei Sándor (1995, Mór, Hungary) currently resides in Budapest.
His work develops through live sculpture. His series "Preserved Still Lives" explores the observation of everyday situations through the arrangement of objects in glass boxes, creating a transparent coordinate system.
In his works, the artist analyzes and reinterprets the tradition of still life, merging painting with contemporary sculpture. In his latest pieces, he arranges cut flowers and vases into organized structures, enclosing them in customized containers that not only recreate the strict composition of still lifes but also reflect the duality between beauty and decay inherent in flowers. For Körei, time plays a central role, as each piece continues to transform after its completion. Thus, the creative process remains open, allowing the viewer to witness its constant evolution.
CURATOR // VICTORIA RIVERS
Victoria Rios is an independent art curator and writer dedicated to exploring the boundaries of contemporary creation, contributing to critical and transformative thought. My practice is a space of convergence, a dynamic ecosystem where the vital, the ancestral, and the contemporary intertwine as a constantly moving web of knowledge.
As a curator, researcher, and advisor, my work focuses on supporting, fostering, and disseminating contemporary artistic creation, exploring the intersection between art, culture, and emerging social movements.
I investigate how holistic and spiritual processes weave new narratives in contemporary poetics, where the mystical meets the political, the material intertwines with the intangible, and the individual expands the boundaries of the collective, generating an experience of openness and critical reflection.
I collaborate with institutions, galleries, and projects to develop platforms that facilitate the encounter between artists, audiences, and contexts, promoting dialogue between diverse forms of expression and seeking new ways of visibility for contemporary art. My approach is to accompany artists through their creative process, providing a space for their voices and visions to develop freely and challengingly, respecting their uniqueness and fostering interdisciplinarity.
Through transdisciplinary artistic practices, I build new possible worlds, unraveling narratives of resistance and revealing critical spiritualities that foster a process of consciousness expansion about creation. My work aims to be a portal for transgression, transformation, and expansion, a living device that destabilizes narratives, constructs grammars of thought, and projects futures beyond imagination.
This is a project of resistance that weaves new perceptions, a legacy that is not archived, but pulses.