The 4th Annual VIVA Exhibition: Plasticity

VIVA Alliance’s 4th Annual Exhibition, Plasticity, considers how we and the world around us are continuously shaped through processes of formation, instability, and transformation. The exhibition approaches plasticity through the felt and material processes of change, reflecting on the ways materials, bodies, images, memories, environments, systems, and social realities are shaped by pressure, contact, precarity, and uncertainty. It asks how forms reorganize themselves through relation with the world, and examines how such encounters may alter perception and meaning through negotiation, rupture, and exchange.

In a contemporary moment shaped by acceleration, displacement, environmental change, self-optimization, and constant reinvention, Plasticity offers a counterpoint to purely celebratory understandings of flexibility and adaptation, reflecting on how we navigate the pressures of existing in a state of continuous formation.

With this curatorial direction, VIVA Alliance invites artists to reflect on the processes through which unstable systems restructure, regenerate, or respond to forces, pressures, and relations that continually remake our worlds.