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The show INVERSION-CONVERSION will open on Friday, 21 June, from 17 to 21, at BPA// Raum.

The group show features works by BPA// participants Felisha Maria Carenage, Will Fredo, Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, Tra My Nguyen, Julija Zaharijević and Esvin Alarcón Lam.

Transformation, whether material or metaphysical, has the potential to throw normativity into disarray and open up the field for different constellations of being. Crossing a threshold can be part of transformation, as well as creating an inversion or a conversion. This can occur by way of a reflection of a mirror, a role switch, a transfer, a “negative image”, that which could be seen as ontologically “downside up” or inside out. What happens to our perception when we see the world and our worlds in reversal? What made the artist turn the urinal on its head?

INVERSION-CONVERSION brings together a group of six international artists based in Berlin. Collectively, they work across the mediums of video, sculpture, installation, drawing, photography and painting. The exhibition brings together sensibilities that engage materiality with concepts informed by diverse feminisms, blackness and queerness in order to experience the present; a moment in a state of continual transformation (Saidiya Hartman).

Curated by Will Fredo.