on view 💖✨cuuute <3
Glossy surfaces, soft forms and pastel bodies exert an immediate pull. They engage not only the eye but the entire field of perception, evoking a desire to come closer, to touch, to test the materiality. Somewhere between toy and candy, familiar yet strange, the objects by
@trambahn @symbiogenicstuff and
@janina.totzauer resist clear classification even upon closer inspection. In this shift, the seemingly innocent begins to tip. Beneath smooth glazes, creamy hues, and soft biomorphic forms, structures emerge that point to processes of production, attribution, and availability.
The exhibition cuuute <3 takes up this ambivalence. Drawing on digital image culture, where affect condenses into brief, overstated expressions and enthusiasm, irony, and distance often coexist within a single gesture, cuteness operates as a cultural code. No longer merely ornamental, cuteness emerges here as a critical strategy, taking on distinct forms within each artistic practice.
In Lorena Rode’s
@symbiogenicstuff work, soft, organic forms intertwine with instruments of artificial reproduction, forming bodies that oscillate between seduction and excess. What appears playful reveals underlying structures of control, where fertility, availability, and productivity become inscribed into the body.
Janina Totzauer
@janina.totzauer develops a visual language of estrangement, presenting fragmented, vacuum-sealed forms alongside worm-like bodies that oscillate between exposure and withdrawal. Her works evoke presences that resist clear attribution, raising questions of belonging and the conditions under which difference is produced and perceived.
In Tràmi Nguyễn’s
@trambahn installation, memory and cultural identity take shape through layered fragments of personal and collective histories. Familiar materials become carriers of shifting meanings, forming a space in which belonging remains fluid and continuously renegotiated.
On view until May 28 🍬
cuuute <3
@trambahn @symbiogenicstuff @janina.totzauer
16.4.–28.5.
@coffspace
Open Tue-Thur 10am-5pm
& by appt
📸 Marlene Mauer
@pauermauer <33
This project is supported by
@kulturreferat.muenchen