Planetary Dysphoria presents painting, sculpture, installation, digital print, and photography. Ayse Kipri’s wall-mounted structures point to the construction cycle of urban landscapes where derelict buildings are knocked down, erased, and replaced; raising questions around memory, time, and the importance of place. Andreea Ionascu’s installations are explorations of artificial realities and metamorphic narratives researching limits and rifts, creating tactile languages through the absence of visual specificity and the potential of a shared contemporary perspective. Araminta Blue’s paintings interrogate contradictions in human nature: control and protection, exploration and destruction, the hero, and the parasite. Mert Acar photographs the borders between city and countryside, investigating hybrid lands as both expressions of current environmental conditions and as constructed realities.

Michela de Nichilo explores aesthetic judgment and ideas of value in relation to the vulnerability and potentiality of nonhuman beings and the current ecological crisis. For Planetary Dysphoria she is focusing on a domestic setting, interrogating the idea of the aquarium, ornamental fish, and artificiality. Sofia Bonato looks at the role of the individual, escapism, and subtle manifestations of collective anxiety. Her digital prints employ playful post-internet imagery, nodding at consumer culture, and the continuous paradox of recycling and wasting.

Planetary Dysphoria is curated by Art Elsewhere and Sara Thorsen Fredborg and hosted by Generation & Display with the generous support of Queensrollahouse Artists’ Studios.

Photo Credits: Ufuk Yuksel Photography