A selection of works from Frederic de Goldschmidt's collection with invited artists. Curated by Ariane Sutthavong

Late capitalism thrives on the illusion of fluidity. We are sold a vision of seamless circulation, of facilitated consumption of images, ideas and identities while ever more barriers are being erected.

What might emerge when the world we encounter  is no longer frictionless? When uncertainty and fragility are not obstacles but propositions, when demands for legibility are met with a refusal to be fully grasped and resistance to the compulsion to reduce, measure or contain?

Inspired by Mark Fisher’s writings in The Weird and the Eerie in which presences and absences disturb by exposing the contingency of what we take as natural, the exhibition unveils a reality that is not fixed but open to forces from the outside.

Unlike a corridor, which prescribes movement, a door does not merely suggest transition but signals a rupture, leading not to certainty but to unknowns. Thresholds become sites of encounter between alternatives, holding within their precarity a potentiality, a proposition not yet fully formed. Portals gesture toward the imagination and activation of other modes of existence.

The artists invite us to linger in these moments of tension and irresolution, where the known world begins to slip, and something else altogether starts to emerge. We remain in a state of suspension.

Marc Buchy, Sten Ceulemans, Nathalie Muchamad and Angyvir Padilla were invited to present artworks alongside pieces in Frédéric de Goldschmidt’s collection by Francis Alÿs, Claire Andrzejczak, Babi Badalov, Elena Bajo, Charles Baudelaire, Mel Bochner, James Brooks, Ting-Jung Chen, Gaëlle Choisne, Lionel Dury, Stefano Faoro, Esther Ferrer, Nadia Guerroui, Mona Hatoum, Tarek Lakhrissi, Violeta Mayoral, Walid Raad, Martin Sexton, Trevor Yeung.