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Shelly Lea Reich curates the exhibition Hyperborea for Hallen 06, featuring artworks by Nicolás Lamas, Lukas Heerich, Asaf Hinden, David Shaime, Jack O'brien, Kingsley Ifill, Naama Tsabar,  Shinoh Nam and Shuang 

 

Hyperborea explores how material and objects function not just as vessels of memory but as elements that distort, erase, and reconfigure it.

 

Rather than simply preserving the past, materials undergo shifts that alter their meaning and presence over time. Drawing from Catherine Malabou's The Ontology of the Accident: An Essay on Destructive Plasticity, the exhibition considers how objects, like identities, are subject to irreversible transformation.

 

Malabou describes destructive plasticity as a force that "does not produce a new form but results in a formlessness, a loss of identity." Applied to materiality, this suggests that objects do not passively store history; rather, they exist in a constant state of flux, where memory is broken and remade.

 

Hyperborea

6 - 14 September 2025

 

Wilhelm Hallen
Kopenhagener Straße 60–68
13407 Berlin Reinickendorf

  

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6 September 2025