Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg presents a study of material instability

Passages is an exhibition about the mutability of matter and form. While questions of form often concern how material is endowed with, or given form, the exhibition likewise attends to the existential dimension embedded within a larger notion of form. The moment in which something takes form is often also the moment in which an existence or presence is suggested, while conversely the dissolution of form often involves disappearance, loss, or even destruction. Moments of making and unmaking form alternate in this exhibition, presenting works that resist being captured as either fully “stable form” or as formless, existing somewhere in between. They create form while simultaneously suggesting the possibility of its dissolution, as if reflecting a fundamental instability. Even if we encounter objects in this exhibition, its focus lies less on a fixed shape, but on a shift, and on the potential for transformation. Matter is considered as a site of change, encompassing both physic