worm hole in star: A Speculative Journey Through Feminist Technoecology

SomoS Arts, in collaboration with Curator-in-Residence dani neira, is pleased to announce the opening reception of the exhibition ‘worm hole in star‘, featuring the video, installation, and performance works of artists jiawen uffline, Lena Becerra, Lucila Sancineti, and Maria Kobylenko.
About the Exhibition:
Interpreting wormholes as both the tunnels burrowed by critters and the hypothetical connection in space-time, the exhibition conceptualizes wormholes as pathways to the “otherwise.” Through this speculative lens, the artists’ works explore relationships between bodies, environments, and technologies from multiple queer and feminist perspectives. Attuned to human and non-human relationalities, the works find kinship with bugs, pests, and parasites as abject figures associated with disruption, contamination, and mutation. Burrowing toward social and political alternatives, a porous and interdependent “otherwise” takes form through leaking entities, hybrid creatures, suspended cocoons, and microscopic ecosystems. Akin to an “instar” — the stage of an arthropod between periods of moulting — worm hole in star embraces an ambiguous state of becoming.
jiawen uffline’s video essay strategizes the digital, physical, and figurative error that is a “leak,” Lena Becerra’s “gestational ecosystems” create parasitic co-dependencies between materials, Lucila Sancineti’s textile installation metamorphosizes archival clothing patterns into insectoid skins, and Maria Kobylenko’s audiovisual performance brings our attention to the microscopic ecosystems living just below the soil’s crust. Together, the works shed pre-conceived boundaries between technology and ecology, human and non-human, real and imagined.
Event Details:
Opening reception: Friday, March 21, 2025 6 – 9 p.m.
Closing and audio-visual performance by Maria Kobylenko: Saturday, April 12, 7 – 9 p.m.
Exhibition duration: Saturday, March 22, – Saturday, April 12, 2025, 2 – 7 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday, or by appointment
Free entry
Location: SomoS Arts – Kottbusser Damm 95, 1.0G, 10967, Berlin (U8 – Schönleinstraße)
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