HAVE YOU EVER SEEN TWO ANIMALS FIGHTING?

Have you ever seen two animals fighting? Valentina Furian’s solo exhibition opens with the disquieting title, inviting viewers to become protagonists within a speculative scenario where instinctual and the constructed, visible and the submerged, day and night, collide. Newly commissioned site-specific works form the core of the exhibition, manifesting Furian’s posthuman approach and narrative fiction as methodology. Featuring time-based media installations, photography, and large-scale drawings, Furian intends to reshape the spaces into a porous, affective body, where portals, monitors, and a mirroring lake serve as thresholds for transformation. Within them, boundaries blur, and senses of tension and tenderness fuse. Lights evoking night vision used in hunting and military operations function as sensory signals and conceptual threads guiding viewers through the spaces. Here, the roles of predator and prey interchange. As viewers navigate in the disoriented, multi-sensory terrain, power dynamics oscillate between domination and submission, mirroring the shared vulnerability inscribed in the bodies of monuments, animals, and humans. In this opacity, where gazes, voices and bodies resist fixed meanings, a loop turns quietly —an end and a beginning—hovering at ever-open thresholds where they continuously meet.

Text by Yueh-Ning Lee