From April 24 to May 16, 2026, VORFLUTER hosts “Valency,” a collaborative exhibition by Emma Resch and Jared Cobain built upon existence, memory, and the transience of form. Slowly expanding outward from within a silent room, this exhibition centers on the temporary alignments of fragments suspended on the threshold between being and non-being. In this network of interactions, which resembles the ceaseless processes of chemical evolution, time does not flow linearly; instead, it accumulates, folds upon itself, and reincorporates into the system. Layers slowly gathered through patient and listening gestures do not serve as mere evidence of the past, but rather sediment as active participants in the present.
Within the context of the exhibition, the concept of “home” is treated neither as a fixed origin nor a final destination. On the contrary, it is defined as an ambiguous and fluid structure—one that is constantly reconstructed by everything passing through it, offering coherence while simultaneously exposing its own instability. Within this fluidity, image and object, memory and material, self and other meet on a common ground of transience. In this space where bonds are formed, dissolved, and reunited in entirely different forms, what remains is not a fixed narrative, but a living, breathing, and constantly evolving fragile constellation.
The spatial anatomy of this living system is shaped by Emma Resch’s ongoing “Cluster” series. In a production process guided by intuition, alienation, and repetition, Resch cuts and reassembles her gestural drawings to create massive, site-specific collage installations that respond organically to their environment. Known for her practice in spaces such as ASPN Gallery and Kunstraum Ortloff, the artist weaves fragmented forms into the architectural fabric of the space like an evolving organism.
Jared Cooper Cobain responds to this structure with a profound “pictorial archaeology” focused on the variable and fragmented nature of memory. His works, shaped through processes of layering, erasing, and reworking, deliberately destabilize the viewer’s visual perception, bringing the elusive nature of memories to the canvas. The visual synergy created by Resch’s spatial interventions and Cobain’s temporal excavations on canvas is accompanied by the electronic sounds of juli dot fun, whose philosophy of “embrace chaos, be gentle, trust the process” completes the multidimensional, living universe of the exhibition.
Exhibition Details:
- Artists: Emma Resch & Jared Cooper Cobain
- Sound: juli dot fun
- Venue: VORFLUTER, Berlin
- Dates: April 24 – May 16, 2026
- Core Themes: Transience, chemical evolution of form, and the fluidity of memory.
